Current lab members

Parker Banas

Parker is a MS Student working on conservation criminology in Africa. Stay tuned for more information about his research project and efforts to build evidence for action!

Cydney Andrew

Cydney is a MS student in the Fisheries and Wildlife Deptartment at MSU and a Graduate Research Assistant in the lab. She focuses on women’s roles in wildlife trafficking and explores the intersectionality between wildlife trafficking and human trafficking.

Aalayna Green

Aalayna is an undergraduate research assistant majoring in Zoology at Michigan State University. In the lab, Aalayna is investigating the role that gender plays within urban bushmeat trafficking. She has intentions of pursuing graduate school and investigating the overlap between wildlife crime and other forms of illicit trade.

Hannah Eberhard

Hannah Eberhard is an undergraduate student. She is in the Department of Fisheries & Wildlife, concentrating in Conservation Biology. She is also pursuing a minor in Conservation, Recreation, and Environmental Enforcement.

Check out her Handshake Link here.

Helen Agu

Helen is a post doctoral research fellow working on Gender dynamics of Wildlife Trafficking in Africa. She has passion for Environmental Law and Policy development/enforcement, Conservation Education and Environmental rights.