I am a naturalist and conservationist, advocating for the protection of our planet’s forest pharmacies. I completed my PhD in Anthropology at the University of Oxford, specializing in botanical self-medication amongst wild chimpanzees in Uganda. I also have field experience working in the Ecuadorian Amazon and Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique. I am currently working on a two-year animal self-medication project in the Central Peruvian Amazon as part of my Voss Post-doctoral fellowship at Brown University. For this project I will be investigating human and non-human medicinal resource overlap in the region and developing a protocol for protecting non-human medicinal knowledge. Throughout my projects, I use multidisciplinary approaches and methods, including behavioral data coding, animal health monitoring, ethnomedicinal interviews, and pharmacological testing. I also employ natural historical techniques to document my work, including filmmaking and botanical drawing. I have recently taken on a role as an Ambassador for Fauna & Flora’s Nature Champion’s Network and am a member of the IUCN Working Group for Chimpanzee Cultures.