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Agha Ali Akram	Doctoral Candidate, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies Yale University Email Agha Akram is a PhD student at FES. He frequently travels to the Western Himalaya (Himalaya, Karakoram, and Pamir) in Pakistan.
Noel Aloysius	Doctoral Candidate, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies Yale University Email Noel is a PhD candidate at the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. His interests are in water and natural resource management and has been working with the Water Management Division, Ministry of Agriculture and Forests, Royal Government of Bhutan for the past two years on watershed assessment.
Sarah Barbo	MEM '13, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies Yale University Email Sarah is student at School of Forestry and Environmental Studies with interest on the biological and environmental issues/opportunities in the Himalayan region.
Ben Goldfarb	MEM '13, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies Yale University Email Ben has travelled throughout Southeast Asia and lived in Thailand. He is extremely interested in all aspects of Asian environmental management.
Jesse Burkhardt	Doctoral Candidate, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies Yale University Email Jesse is a Ph.D. candidate in environmental economics at F&ES. He is interested in the region and the culture. He has been to the area twice for mountain climbing.
Alyssa Cheung	Ezra Stiles College '12 Yale College Email Alyssa is interested in environmental issues, especially with regards to forestry, in the Himalayas. She spent a summer in Bhutan through the School for Field Studies Program learning about and researching on community forestry. She has worked with Ugyen Wangchuck Institute for Conservation and the Environment (UWICE) in Bhutan.
Luisa Cortesi	Doctoral Candidate 3rd Year, Anthropology and FES Yale University Email A third Year PhD Anthropology and FES student, Luisa is interseted in the area defined by the rivers coming from the Himalaya towards the Ganga (particularly within the administrative boundaries of North Bihar). She is working on the area’s recurrent floods and connected historical ecosystem changes, its inhabitants’ understanding of their natural environment and its waters, and the significance of water within the complex socio-political and environmental landscape.
Hilary Faxon	MEM '13, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies Yale University Email Hilary Faxon is a candidate for the Masters of Environmental Management at FES. Her interest is in conservation, development and education in the Himalayan region. At present, Hilary is living in Bhutan on a Yale fellowship, interning at the Royal Society for the Protection of Nature.
Shaila Seshia Galvin	Doctoral Candidate, Anthropology and FES Yale University Email Shaila Seshia Galvin is a doctoral candidate at Anthropology and FES at Yale. Her dissertation, provisionally titled, "State of Nature: Agriculture, Development and the Making of Organic Uttarakhand", examines the conjunction of commercially-oriented organic agriculture with the formation of regional identity in this recently created state in northern India.
Amy Kathleen Higgins	MEM '12, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies Yale University Email Amy Higgins is a graduate student at School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Her Master’s Degree research focused on evaluation of water harvesting techniques known as an ‘artificial glacier’ in the Ladakh region of the Indian Himalaya which underlines her research interest on human adaptation to climate change in the Himalayan region.
Shristi Kamal	Doctoral Candidate Institute of Environmental Sciences, Jagiellonian University, Poland Email Shristi Kamal is a Doctoral Candidate at Jaiellonian University, Poland at the Institute of Environmental Sciences with interest in the Eastern Himalayan region of India. As a former Program Coordinator of Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE) in Darjeeling and Sikkim, India her worked focused on working with forest communities on conservation and livelihood issues.
Jennie Miller	Doctoral Candidate, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies Yale University Email Jennie Miller is a second year PhD candidate at F&ES. Her dissertation research examines human-tiger conflict and food web interactions between tigers and domestic prey in central India. She has also carried out research work in Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh, India.
Ryan Sarsfield	MEM '12, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies Yale University Email Ryan is a Masters of Environmental Science student at FES, with a general interest in international conservation and environmental management.
Alark Saxena	Doctoral Candidate, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies Yale University Email Alark is a Doctoral Candidate at FES. His focus is on complex systems approaches to solving problems associated to natural resource management. His work has largely focused on South Asia and the Caribbean. At present, Alark is modelling the resilience of local communities to climate change in central India. In the Himalayan context, he is working to analyze the dynamics between tourism and livelihoods in the Sagarmatha National Park in the Solukhumbu region, along with Mary Tyrrell and Professor Chad Oliver.
Sumana Serchan	MF '14, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies Yale University Email Sumana is an FES Master’s student. Her interest in the Himalaya is deeply rooted in her identity and ethnicity. Belonging to the Thakali, an ethnic group who have settled along the banks of the Kali Gandaki river in the Himalayan region of Nepal, her interest is in understanding the implication of developmental projects which threaten the culture and environment of the region.

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