Team

Directors

India Schneider-Crease
Co-director

Assistant Professor in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change and the Center for Evolution and Medicine at Arizona State University.

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Noah Snyder-Mackler
Co-director

Associate Professor in the School of Life Sciences and Center for Evolution & Medicine at Arizona State University. 

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Amy Lu
Co-director

Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Stony Brook University. 

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Thore Bergman
Co-director, Founder

Professor, Departments of Psychology and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan. 

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Field team

Ambaye Fanta
Researcher (2010-2025)

We dedicate our project to Ambaye's memory and will always hold him in our hearts. 

Eshete Jejaw
Researcher (2008-present)
Setey Girmay
Researcher (2011-present)
Shiferaw Asrat
Research & conservation logistics

Owner, Limalimo Ecolodge

Tariku W/aregay
Research logistics

Owner, Yama Tours Ethiopia

Belayneh Abebe
Conservation Researcher (2013-present)
Yeshemebet Dessie
Facilities coordinator (2010-present)

US support staff

Lorin Hutchings
Lab Technician

Postdoctoral, graduate, and undergraduate researchers

Tiffany Duong
Honor's Undergraduate Student

Biomedical Sciences, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University (advisor: Dr. Schneider-Crease)

Jacob Feder
Postdoctoral Researcher

NSF SBE Postdoctoral Researcher, Arizona State University

Medhavi Verma
PhD Student

Global Health, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Center for Evolution and Medicine, Arizona State University (advisor: Dr. Schneider-Crease)

Brooklynn Scott
PhD Candidate

School of Life Sciences, Center for Evolution and Medicine, Arizona State University (advisor: Dr. Snyder-Mackler)

Maya Saroff
Master's Student

Molecular and Cellular Biology, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University (advisors: Dr. Schneider-Crease, Dr. Arvind Varsani)

Sophia Kottke
PhD Student

Evolutionary Anthropology Program, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Institute of Human Origins, Center for Evolution and Medicine (advisors: Dr. Schneider-Crease, Dr. Joan Silk). 

Natalia Camargo
PhD Student

Department of Anthropology, Stony Brook University (advisor: Dr. Lu)


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