Liv Baker
Fellow and Chair of the Board
Liv Baker is a conservation behaviorist and an expert in wild animal wellbeing.
Her research focuses on individuals; how individuals engage with their environments, and the roles individual, wild animals have in the health of their social groups, cultures, and populations. Dr. Baker’s work explores the similar patterns of wellbeing and behavior seen across the animal kingdom; seeing that individuals want to learn about and hold sway over their lives, that good psychological health corresponds to good physical health, that social context matters, and that positive emotions and reasonable challenges are not luxuries, but integral elements to being alive.…
Glory Bardin
Community Fellow
Glory Bardin has loved animals as long as she can remember.
Her first dog, a Dachshund named Little ‘D was of great inspiration to her and stoked her interest in training, behavioral science, and generally how we can better understand the animals in our care.
It wasn’t until her second dog, Teddy Bear, that Glory really began to understand the problems facing companion animals.…
Bill Borrie
Fellow
Bill Borrie, PhD is a conservation social scientist who is fascinated by human-nature relationships. For many years he has researched the wild, wilderness areas, and the lived human experiences of them.
Bill’s writings have raised issues of technology and wilderness, the ‘disneyfication’ of wilderness, the privatization of nature, the difficult notion of primitiveness, the role of wilderness as a sanctuary, the engendering of wilderness, and on the measurement, monitoring, and management of quality visitor experiences.…
Adam Cardilini
Fellow
Adam Cardilini is an ecologist and conservation social scientist focussed on properly considering animals in research and society.
Adam is interested in transparently reporting the subjective experiences of animals in science and society, and whether taking an animal perspective can influence our beliefs and behaviours towards animals. He uses systematic review and social science methods to do for animal use in biomedical research, conservation biology, and animal agriculture.…
Pablo Castello
Fellow
Pablo’s work focuses on deconstructing oppressions against minoritized groups, including animals, and on developing proposals to build more just political and legal systems where all animals can flourish.
The deconstructive side of Pablo’s research examines why exposing, or seeing, violence often fails to lead to political transformation, and why biodiversity-based conservation tends to overlook the moral and political significance of individual animals and their social communities.…
Mara-Daria Cojocaru
Fellow and Writer in Virtual Residence
Mara is a poet and philosopher from Germany, and is Privatdozentin at the Munich School of Philosophy. At PAN Works she is establishing a new project on “animal-assisted philosophy” – a blend of philosophical and creative writing that is not just about, but with and for other animals.
As a philosopher, she has taught at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, the Munich School of Philosophy and the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, and she has been visiting scholar at the University of Sheffield, the University of Brighton and the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna.…
Tristan Derham
Research Fellow
Tristan is an environmental philosopher, ethicist, and ecologist based at the University of Tasmania, Nipaluna/Hobart.
He is the Course Coordinator for the Diploma of Sustainable Living at the University of Tasmania and has taught into several undergraduate courses, including philosophy, ecology, nursing, and law.
Tristan is also a Project Manager for the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre, working with WWF-Australia on the ecological and cultural restoration of islands in Tayaritja/Bass Strait Island Sea Country, the lands and waters of the Pakana people of Lutruwita/Tasmania.…
Kim Hightower
Community Fellow
Kim is an advocate for humans, nonhumans and the environment. She promotes animal wellbeing using insights from social psychology and ecopsychological that emphasize empathy, compassion and ethical capacity building. She joined PAN Works as a communications specialist, and is now the Associate Editor for our Medium column.
She grew up feeling safest in nature and cherished the opportunity in school to read and analyze literature.…
Rick Kelaher
Graduate Fellow
Rick is an animal-human historian and anthrozoologist whose past research has mostly focused on felis catus and the 19th century animal protection movement. He hails from Brooklyn, New York.
Rick graduated from Boston University’s College of Arts and Sciences with a BA in Archaeology and spent several years working in publishing. In 2019, Rick took a three-month assignment doing archival work for the ASPCA which turned into a role lasting for four years.…
Barbara King
Research Fellow
Barbara J. King is a biological anthropologist and freelance science writer and public speaker.
Barbara focuses on animal emotion and cognition, and the ethics of human relationships with other animals. She has conducted observational research on learning strategies by infant baboons in Amboseli National Park, Kenya, and has filmed and analyzed gestural interactions among family groups of gorillas and bonobos held in captivity.…
Fred Koontz
Fellow Emeritus
Fred Koontz, PhD is an ethological zoologist with a long, diverse, wildlife career at the Wildlife Conservation Society, Wildlife Trust (now “EcoHealth Alliance”), Teatown, Woodland Park Zoo, and Washington Fish & Wildlife Commission. Fred has held adjunct appointments at Columbia University, New York University, and University of Washington.
Fred has undertaken projects both in zoos and nature, mostly focused on endangered species.…
Robin Kuehn
Community Fellow
Robin seeks to embrace the true questions that our community must consider in learning to coexist with the wild beings among us. She currently lives in the Hudson Valley of New York State, and is finishing her Master’s of Science in Anthrozoology through Canisius University, studying the impacts of interpersonal relationships between certain humans and free-ranging non-human individuals.…
Joann Lindenmayer
Fellow
Joann’s research focuses on the paradigm of One Health with a particularly interest in its ethical underpinnings. She advocates for incorporating One Health and wellbeing into policies and program from global to local levels.
Joann spent seven years living in the regions of Sabah and North Borneo (Malaysia) and the country of Niger working on zoonotic disease.…
William Lynn
Founder and President
Bill specializes in animal and sustainability ethics as they interface with public policy. Exploring why and how we ought to care for people, animals and nature, this is practical research translating insights from his interdisciplinary training in ethics, geography and political theory into public dialogues over moral problems.
Graduating from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities with a bachelors in political science and a doctorate in geography, he is a research scientist in the Marsh Institute at Clark University, a research fellow at the social science think-tank Knology, and a graduate professor in the Anthrozoology program at Canisius University.…
Emily Major
Research Fellow
Emily Major is an early career researcher who uses Critical Animal Studies, ecofeminist ethics of care, and intersectional approaches with advocacy to promote empathy, compassion, and kindness to nonhuman animals. While she advocates for all species of animals, her current research interests are focused on species of animals that are ostracised in society, such as ‘pest’ or ‘invasive’ species.…
Monica Ogra
Research Fellow
Monica Ogra is an interdisciplinary, mixed methods researcher with a background in feminist political ecology, cultural anthropology, and animal geographies. She is keenly interested in the places and spaces where animal studies, environmental sustainability, and equity/ethics/advocacies meet, both materially and discursively.
As a conservation social scientist, her scholarship focuses primarily on challenges related to human-wildlife conflict & coexistence and the politics of protected area-based conservation in India – with a goal of helping to promote equitable and ethical approaches to sustainable development and species coexistence more generally. …
Danielle Raad
Fellow and Curator in Virtual Residence
Danielle Raad is an anthropologist, educator, and the Curator and Assistant Director of the Stanford University Archaeology Collections. In this role, she oversees all aspects of SUAC operations, acquisitions, registration, collections management, education, research, and outreach.
Danielle completed a PhD in Anthropology and a Graduate Certificate in Public History from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is also a graduate of Lesley University (MEd, Secondary Education), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (SM, Materials Science and Engineering), Harvard University (MA, Chemistry), and Brown University (BSc, Chemistry).…
Christine Reed
Research Fellow (On Leave)
Christine Reed is an emeritus professor in the School of Public Administration, having served on the faculty there since 1982. In recent years she has integrated her academic background with her interest in the public management of free-roaming horses, with a special focus on the Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Range (PMWHR) on the border of Wyoming and Montana.…
Nicole Roberts
Community Fellow and Associate Editor
Nicole envisions a world that works towards positive outcomes for people, animals, and nature through compassion, critical thinking, and curiosity.
Nicole recently completed her Master’s in Conservation Leadership from Colorado State University’s Human Dimensions of Natural Resources program in December of 2023. Through this experience, it became abundantly clear to Nicole that while we may rely on our conservation science to demonstrate what we can do, and our social science to speak to what communities want us to do, neither practice illuminates what we ought to do.…
Francisco Santiago-Ávila
Fellow and Clerk of the Board
Fran researches and practices the application of nature ethics to our mixed-community of people, animals and nature, with a focus on the promotion of worldviews rooted in non-anthropocentrism, an ethic of care, and justice.
His quantitative research has focused on the evaluation of the impact of policies and interventions to both conserve and prevent conflicts with large carnivores, specifically with endangered wolves in the US (gray, Mexican, red).…
Gary Sheer
Producer
Gary Sheer produces our PAN Thinks podcast. A professional photographer and videographer specializing in event photography, he describes his work as follows.
Being an event photographer, I thrive off the spontaneity associated with capturing particular moments in time. While these floating moments are fleeting, I am consistently ready when they come.
I begin my process with previsualization.…
Kristin Stewart
Fellow and Treasurer of the Board
Kris explores boundaries and bridges at the intersection of people, animals, and nature, particularly through teaching and writing about animals and spirituality, animal ethics, and animal law and policy.
For Kris, working to better understand people, animals, and nature means taking our interdependence seriously, which is a both-and endeavor. It’s intellectual and emotional; theoretical and practical.…
Tanja Straka
Fellow
Tanja is an urban ecologist and a global expert on bats. Fascinated by the human dimensions of wildlife, she explores human-wildlife relationships and anthropogenic impacts in urban areas.
Tanja studied as a biologist at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany, and while there developed a fascination with bats. This led to her PhD (2015) at the University of Melbourne, Australia, where she studied urban wetlands in relation to bats and people.…
Michael Strohbach
Fellow
Michael is a landscape ecologist with an urban focus.
He has expertise in green infrastructure, ecosystem services and urban biodiversity and cultural landscapes. He teaches multivariate-, and geostatistics as well as biodiversity data management at Braunschweig University. Even so, his commitment to PAN Works is not strictly quantitative. He is fascinated by how humans have shaped landscapes, ecosystems and communities in the past, what lessons we can learn from these experiences, and what role humans ought to play in nature.…
Julie Urbanik
Fellow
Julie Urbanik is a qualitatively trained geographer interested in how place shapes the ethical relations between humans and animals in all their combinations. To this end, she works as a scholar in the field of animal geographies and consults as an expert witness social geographer in criminal defense mitigation. In all her work, she strives to be a facilitator of curiosity and respect in order to promote reflexive understanding.…
Stephen Vrla
Fellow
Stephen Vrla is an environmental educator who helps nurture mutual thriving among people, animals, and nature.
Stephen’s work lies at the intersection of teaching, scholarship, and advocacy. As a teacher, he creates learning experiences that strengthen students’ environmental and civic literacy and provide them opportunities to engage with authentic environmental and social issues. As a scholar, he investigates the effects of formal and informal learning experiences on people’s environmental and civic literacy as well as connections among theories and methods of environmental and deliberative democratic education.…
Joachim Nieuwland
Former Fellow
Joachim Nieuwland is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at Utrecht University, teaching veterinary ethics geared at fostering moral resilience and supporting moral decision-making.
Lysanne Snijders
Former Fellow
Lysanne is a behavioral ecologist, experienced in the study of personality and social behaviour of wild animals. She explores how insights from animal behavior can meaningfully inform wildlife conservation.