Dr. Laly Lichtenfeld is a woman with a passion for Africa. She lives in Tanzania and is co-founder and the executive director of the African People & Wildlife Fund and a research affiliate of Yale University’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. She has over 15 years of experience in East Africa working with large carnivores, local communities and village-based conservation programs. Dr. Lichtenfeld received a Ph.D. from Yale University in 2005 for her research combining wildlife ecology and social ecology in an interdisciplinary study of human-lion relationships, interactions and conflicts. She is a member of the African Lion Working Group, the Yale Large Carnivore Group as well as a recipient of the Fulbright Award. Her work has been featured on National Geographic Wild and the Discovery Channel Canada.