The People Behind FLARE
Steering Committee

Arun Agrawal
University of Michigan

Gaia Allison
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

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
FLARE Program Manager
University of Notre Dame

FESTUS AMADU
Postdoctoral Research Associate
University of Notre Dame

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
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