Nicole Roberts MS » Team

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. For that, we must rely on ethics.

Having worked for Colorado Parks and Wildlife previously, and in her current role with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Nicole is interested in bringing ethics to life in wildlife management agencies through capacity building and conservation planning. Such work involves understanding the relationship between facts and values, challenging reigning normative constructs in conservation, facilitating deliberative public involvement, and nurturing philosophical reflection and discussion. In equipping individuals with the tools necessary to navigate the moral frontiers of conservation, Nicole draws upon her graduate work in the social sciences to more deeply understand the experiences, needs, and barriers faced by practitioners themselves; grounding the insights in both theory and practice.

Nicole also holds a Bachelor of Arts in the Biological Sciences and Philosophy from the University of Denver, and a Humane Education Practitioner Certificate from the University of Denver’s Institute for Human-Animal Connection.