BIOS

BOARD OF TRUSTEES, USA

Sonya Kahlenberg- Executive Director
Terry Eastman - Chair
Beth Armstrong - Secretary
John Slyconish - Treasurer
Tammie Bettinger, PhD
Zarin Machanda, PhD
Elizabeth Ross, PhD
Sean Rush
Richard Wrangham, PhD
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UGANDA PROGRAMME

Emily Otali, PhD
James Amanyire
Patrick Tusiime
Shamilah Tuhaise
Francis Rwabuhinga
Gorret Nyabutono
​​Derrick Kajura
Clare Murumba
​Kenneth Ategeka
Musana Isaac
Ayebale Joshua
​Patrick Tusiime

Elizabeth Ross, PhD
Executive Director,
​co-founder

Elizabeth received her PhD from Edinburgh University in 1979. Coming from a research science and education background, she works to promote conservation through well-run, properly monitored, self-sustaining educational projects that benefit communities living around protected areas in Africa, specifically through the support of primary schools, conservation education and health in western Uganda. In 1997 she founded the Kasiisi Project and has acted as its Executive Director ever since.