Conservation Science

Jadda is a Bellwether Postdoctoral Scholar at UC Berkeley’s School of Information, where she partners with Ohlone youth and cultural leaders to co-design mixed-reality exhibits. Alongside this work, she continues the community-based research she co-developed in Maui, Hawaiʻi, exploring how students engage with Kānaka ʻŌiwi (Native Hawaiian) biocultural knowledge alongside Western science in environmental and wildfire mitigation education. Broadly, her work centers Indigenous epistemologies, place-based education, and epistemic justice in environmental and science education.

Leslie is an ecologist, educator, and naturalist studying wild pollinators in Vermont. Before moving to Vermont, Leslie studied wild pollinators in Costa Rican forests and coffee farms, Minnesota prairies, and the urban wilds of Boston. She is also a Vermont Master Naturalist and serves on the Vermont Pollinator Working Group steering committee.

Marina Dewinara Luccioni is a Corsican-Indonesian ecologist and experimental film-maker studying human and environmental health. Her PhD dissertation focuses on using chemical and molecular ecology in support of community-based and Indigenous ecological governance in Corsica, Hawai’i and California.

Nicolás is a fire ecologist and fire practitioner who studies the reintroduction of Indigenous cultural burning in two of California’s ecologically and culturally important ecosystems: tule wetlands and oak woodlands. His applied research is driven by a desire to support Indigenous-led restoration and advance tribal sovereignty while broadly addressing the ecological impacts and ongoing history of settler colonialism.

Isabella “Izzy” Ossiander is an interdisciplinary scientist enrolled in the Coastal Science and Policy Master’s Program at UC Santa Cruz who is studying marine bycatch technologies and methods that are practical for fishing communities and equitably distribute the impact of this deployment.