The People Behind FLARE

Steering Committee

Arun Agrawal

University of Michigan

Gaia Allison

Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Allen Blackman

Allen Blackman

Inter-American Development Bank

Reem Hajjar

Oregon State University

Lars Løvold

Rainforest Foundation Norway

Robert Nasi

CIFOR-ICRAF

Margareta Nilsson

The Tenure Facility

Former Steering Committee Members

Guillermo Castenellos

Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation


Penny Davies

Ford Foundation

Iain Davidson-Hunt

University of Manitoba, Canada

Andy White

Rights and Resources Initiative

Secretariat

DANIEL C. MILLER

FLARE Coordinator
University of Notre Dame

Brian Wanbaugh

BRIAN WANBAUGH

FLARE Program Manager
University of Notre Dame

FESTUS AMADU

Postdoctoral Research Associate
University of Notre Dame

Katia Nakamura

KATIA NAKAMURA

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Conservation International/University of Notre Dame

Valena McEwen 

Graduate Research Assistant
University of Notre Dame

Current FLARE Postdoctoral & Graduate Research Associates

Festus Amadu

Postdoctoral Research Associate
University of Notre Dame

Sarah E. (Brown) Castle

Ph.D. Student
University of Illinois

Wenman Liu

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
University of Michigan

Katia Nakamura

KATIA NAKAMURA

Postdoctoral Research Associate

University of Notre Dame

Past FLARE Postdoctoral & Graduate Research Associates

Anil Bhargava

Former Post-Doctoral Fellow
University of Michigan

Jennifer Zavaleta Cheek

Assistant Professor

South Dakota State University

James “J.T.” Erbaugh

Post-Doctoral Fellow
Social Scientist, The Nature Conservancy, and
Affiliate Faculty, Dartmouth College

MOHAMMAD FARRAE

Graduate Research Assistant
University of Notre Dame

Reem Hajjar

Associate Professor

Oregon State University

Suhyun Jung

Assistant Professor
West Virginia University

Allison Kelly

Data Scientist
Branch International

Chuan Liao

Assistant Professor
Arizona State University

Francesca McGrath

Environmental Grants Manager
Arcadia

Pete Newton

Associate Professor

University of Colorado Boulder

Johan Oldekop

Associate Professor

University of Sheffield

Laura Rasmussen

Assistant Professor
University of Copenhagen

Jonathan Sullivan

Post-doctoral Research Scientist

University of Arizona

sarah wilson

Post-Doctoral Fellow
University of Michigan