Katie Feilen

Education

Ph.D. in Biological Anthropology, University of California-Davis

M.A. in Biological Anthropology, University of California-Davis

B.S. in Biology and Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Biography

...is Project Dragonfly's Director at Miami University. As a primatologist, and conservation biologist, she has lived and worked internationally for over five years, including teaching environmental education with Peace Corps Paraguay, studying white-faced capuchins in Costa Rica, teaching Peruvian students tropical ecology and conservation in the Amazon, and studying seven primates on Indonesian Borneo. Katie received an M.A. and Ph.D. in Biological Anthropology from the University of California-Davis and a B.S. in Biology and Psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She studies how primates adapt to changes in their environments and how to use scientific understanding of species to assist in their conservation. She engages the Oxford, Ohio, community in conversations about climate change through art and inquiry-based science.