Biography:
This fall I will be in my second year as a masters student at Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies where I am concentrating on environmental economics. I received a BSC in Wildlife Science and Conservation from the University of Dar es salaam in Tanzania in June 2006 and in August I joined Yale. My undergraduate research project was about community-based conservation in Tanzania and it was the best research report in the class. I was among the best three graduating students in my class. During my high school and undergraduate education, I have been involved with NGO work for over eight years on issues of youth, sustainable development, HIV/AIDS, and poverty alleviation at the national, regional and, international levels.

Research Focus:
My current research interests focus on how climate change affect the temporal and spatial distribution of natural resources and how this further influences human and wildlife interaction and what could be sustainable solutions to this. I am particularly interested on the communities and wildlife occupying the Ukutu Valley on the leeward side of the Eastern Arch Mountains in Tanzania.