2013-14 Traveling Fellow
Seeking Samma Ajiva: When Life Nurtures Life

Emma’s project focused on exploring biodiversity hotspots across six continents. She interned with NGOs and grassroots movements, learned peoples’ opinion of the conservation project in their community, and documented her journey through blogged reflections, watercolor, and photography.

Hometown: Atlanta, GA
Major: Molecular and Cellular Biology

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Cornelius Scholar, Lanier Leadership Scholar, and Truman Scholar, Emma Steigerwald graduated early from Vanderbilt and spent what would have been her final spring semester working on a scarlet macaw reintroduction project in Chiapas, Mexico. Internships and volunteering in wildlife rehabilitation and ecology-evolution research have made her curious about how successful conservation projects take flight; from initial assessment of an environmental issue, to investigating solutions, ecosystemic and species management, sustainable development work, and political action.

Emma is a biologist and doctoral candidate at the University of California, Berkley.