I am a conservation strategist, wildlife biologist, and National Geographic Explorer from Uganda — working at the intersection of biodiversity science, protected area governance, and climate policy.
"The intersectionality between people and nature is complex — through my work, I am unpacking the relationships between conservation and the cultures of communities who have stood as the face of conservation for generations."
For the past 6+ years, I have led conservation initiatives across Uganda and the broader East and Southern Africa region. I currently serve as Co-Chair of the IUCN WCPA Wilderness Specialist Group — the global body setting the international agenda on wilderness conservation — and co-lead Terra-NatureWild Conservation, where I direct protected and conserved area programming.
I hold an MSc in Biodiversity, Conservation and Management from the University of Oxford, where I studied as an Oxford-Weidenfeld and Hoffmann Scholar and Kofi Annan Scholar at Mansfield College. My dissertation examined vegetation resilience and land use/land cover transitions across the Murchison Falls Conservation Area in Uganda — using multi-temporal Sentinel-2 satellite imagery to develop a nine-class ecological resilience typology and a novel adaptive zoning framework for tropical savannah mosaics, with direct application to evidence-based ecosystem management.
Alongside this scientific work, I am committed to the philosophy of science-telling: using narrative, cultural knowledge, and storytelling to transform how conservation science reaches and moves people, policymakers, and institutions. Conservation data alone does not change systems — stories do.
I have contributed to UNFCCC COP processes, shaped biodiversity policy recommendations across four African sub-regions, spoken at the IUCN World Conservation Congress 2025 and the 12th World Wilderness Congress, and co-created National Geographic's #GenGeo programme, where I trained 168 young conservation professionals across Africa.
