Maya is a PhD student in the Food Systems Program at UVM, and is also a Gund Graduate Fellow through the Leadership for the Ecozoic (L4E) program.
Having lived and worked in Madagascar for the better part of the last 15 years, Maya has grown interested in the nexus between tropical agriculture, biodiversity conservation, sustainable livelihoods and human well-being. Specifically, she is looking into the ways in which smallholder farmers in the tropics are perceiving and experiencing changes in their environment, and how this, in turn, impacts their land use decision-making.
Advisors: Meredith Niles and Taylor Ricketts