MICRO-BIO

• Spending many years in academia as a student and as a researcher, I primarily focussed on measuring and analyzing human society-environment interactions and communicate its state, trends and issues of interests to resource users, managers and policy...More

  Spending many years in academia as a student and as a researcher, I primarily focussed on measuring and analyzing human society-environment interactions and communicate its state, trends and issues of interests to resource users, managers and policy makers. I sought to provide detailed qualitative insights and quantitative empirical representation of stakeholder attributes relevant to specific human-environmental issues to improve understanding and enable reliable policy making decisions. I tried to adopt an interdisciplinary perspective and integrate environmental sociology, political ecology, natural resource economics, and more recently social psychology to understand, inform and address knowledge gaps in the area of human dimensions of environmental and natural resource management, under diverse socio-ecological contexts. My doctoral research focused on the Western Ghats in India, and it made me aware of the dynamic and complex relationship that exists between the natural environment and human society, specific to the socio-ecological region, and its implications on sustainability. A desire to move from academic research to practice and research, and an opportunity to continue the engagement in understanding human-environment interactions and outcomes in the Western Ghats, brought me to Keystone Foundation, a non-governmental organization focusing on eco-development initiatives in the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, Tamil Nadu, India. I have been with Keystone for nine months and I am currently heading the community well-being program.

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EXPERIENCE

• Keystone Foundation

  • Program Coordinator
  • Community Well-Being
  • Present

• Keystone Foundation

  • Program Coordinator
  • Community Well-Being
  • November 2017 to Present

• University of Washington

  • Post-Doctoral Researcher
  • School of Environmental and Forest Sciences
  • August 2014 to August 2017

• East West Center

  • Project Assistant
  • Eco-Tipping points
  • December 2012 to December 2013

EDUCATION

• Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management, University of Hawaii at Manoa,

  • PhD
  • January 2008 to May 2014

• Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management, University of Hawaii at Manoa,

  • MS
  • August 2005 to December 2007

• Rajagiri College of Social Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University

  • Master in Social Work
  • May 1994 to April 1996

• St. Teresa's College, Mahatma Gandhi University

  • Bachelor in Zoology
  • April 1990 to May 1993

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