Debbie Pierce

I am a PhD student working with Dr. Terry Sunderland in the Faculty of Forestry at the University of British Columbia, and with Augusto Castro-Nuñez at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT). My research is in tropical forestry, land access and gender. I graduated with a BA in Economics and Environmental Policy from the University of Michigan and a Master of Environmental Science and Management (MESM) from the Bren School as the University of California, Santa Barbara. Before coming to UBC I worked at several non-profits, including Conservation International and the Bank Information Center. Most recently I worked at the World Bank, where my work centered around indigenous peoples, gender and forestry issues. During this time I worked on global forestry programs and with forest-dependent communities in Mexico, Peru, Brazil and Burkina Faso.

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Contact me at: debbiepi(at)mail.ubc.ca

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You can find out more about the Sunderland Lab here.

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