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Atlanta, GA | Posted: June 3, 2022
Jennifer Herseim
Editor, Georgia Tech Alumni Association
Jess Hunt-Ralston
Director of Communications
College of Sciences at Georgia Tech
Summary: Renay San Miguel
Summary Sentence:
School of Psychology alumni are now sharing expertise at major city zoos and wildlife conservation funds.
Full Summary:
Four School of Psychology alumni are now in leadership positions are two major U.S. zoos, while another is the CEO of a top wildlife conservation fund. The latest issue of the Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine shows how their time in academia prepared them for their current roles.
Megan Ross (Illustration: Delphine Lee)
Tara Stoinski monitors a mountain gorilla (Photo: Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund)Megan Ross (M.S. PSY 99, Ph.D. PSY 01), never considered that the time she spent as a child, "always digging in the dirt, looking at the bugs, picking up the worms," would eventually lead to being the first woman president and CEO of Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo.
Fellow School of Psychology alumni have also ended up in leadership positions at some of the country's most prestigious zoos and conservation societies:
Christopher Kuhar (Ph.D. PSY 04), executive director of the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
Kristen Lukas (M.S. PSY 95, Ph.D. PSY 99), director of conservation and science at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
Estelle Sandhaus (M.S. PSY 04, Ph.D. PSY 13), director of conservation and science at the Santa Barbara Zoo
Tara Stoinski, Ph.D. PSY 00, and CEO of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund. (Fun fact: Georgia Tech President and fellow School of Psychology alum Ángel Cabrera was Stoinski's statistics teaching assistant.)
The five School of Psychology alumni are profiled in the spring 2022 edition of the Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine. Read about their time at Georgia Tech and their current roles in wildlife and conservation:
