Catherine Picard is a doctoral candidate at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies working with Professors’ William Burch and Susan Clark. Her research is focused on transboundary and large scale conservation in sub Saharan Africa. Her dissertation is an appraisal of the design, implementation and impact of the Selous Niassa Wildlife Corridor located on the Tanzanian-Mozambique border.
Prior to Yale, she spent five years with the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and has lived and worked in Rwanda, Senegal, Swaziland, Namibia and South Africa. Ms. Picard has a B.S. from the University of California at Berkeley, and a M.S. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.