ABOUT
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Lauren Sadowski is a current Master's of Environmental Management student at the Yale School of the Environment, where she is focusing on the human dimensions of conservation and wildlife management at a community-based level. Lauren graduated in 2017 with a B.S. in Environmental Studies from the University of Vermont. Since then, she's been working as a teacher naturalist at Mass Audubon and a community conservationist, wildlife ecologist, and student coordinator in southern Africa. Through her research and work, she seeks to understand equitable conservation practices using an integration of social and ecological sciences.
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RECENT AND CURRENT WORK
2021
- Visiting researcher at the Northern Rockies Conservation Cooperative to better understand human relations with grizzly bears in Jackson, WY.
- Research Assistant for the Ucross High Plains Stewardship Initiative working with The Nature Conservancy Colorado in the developing a conservation and recreation management plan for Colorado's newest state park.
2020
- Started graduate studies at the Yale School of the Environment.
- Taught online course for Salem State University and Mass Audubon: Intro to Environmental Photography: Nature, Landscapes, and Wildlife.
- Taught online workshop for the Seabrook-Hamptons Estuary Alliance: The Art of Great Photography.
- Presented at Mass Audubon: Human-wildlife conflict mitigation and community development in rural Botswana.
2019
- Collaborated with women's garden club to combat malnutrition and gain food security in rural village - Botswana.
- Designed environmental education for primary school - Botswana (see Teaching page).
- Composed a conservation management plan for wildlife dispersal area of KAZA - Botswana (see Research page).
- Wrote Theory of Change proposal for preserving the ancient culture of the Khoisan people in a modern social-ecological system - Botswana (See Research page).
- Taught and designed student science programs for Mass Audubon.
- Visiting researcher at the Northern Rockies Conservation Cooperative to better understand human relations with grizzly bears in Jackson, WY.
- Research Assistant for the Ucross High Plains Stewardship Initiative working with The Nature Conservancy Colorado in the developing a conservation and recreation management plan for Colorado's newest state park.
2020
- Started graduate studies at the Yale School of the Environment.
- Taught online course for Salem State University and Mass Audubon: Intro to Environmental Photography: Nature, Landscapes, and Wildlife.
- Taught online workshop for the Seabrook-Hamptons Estuary Alliance: The Art of Great Photography.
- Presented at Mass Audubon: Human-wildlife conflict mitigation and community development in rural Botswana.
2019
- Collaborated with women's garden club to combat malnutrition and gain food security in rural village - Botswana.
- Designed environmental education for primary school - Botswana (see Teaching page).
- Composed a conservation management plan for wildlife dispersal area of KAZA - Botswana (see Research page).
- Wrote Theory of Change proposal for preserving the ancient culture of the Khoisan people in a modern social-ecological system - Botswana (See Research page).
- Taught and designed student science programs for Mass Audubon.
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