Megan Parker, Ph.D. is helping the SVC team build a sustainable future and increase conservation impact. Working across disciplines in wildlife ecology and connectivity, focused on predators for her research and co-founder of Working Dogs for Conservation, her career has been in non-profit conservation. She grew up in Montana with an abundance of animals, wild and domestic, and learned the importance of respecting other species and their needs.

With a background in art and science, she joined a team in Guatemala for her MS working on falcons in Tikal National Park. She worked on the restoration of peregrine falcons in the West, wolves in Idaho, and earned her PhD following packs of African wild dogs, learning about chemical communication and helping develop conflict mitigation tools in Botswana’s Okavango Delta. She helped develop the field of canine conservation detection and believes in the abilities of dogs to answer a tremendous range of conservation questions. She has helped build programs, partner with organizations and governments, led international trainings and trained dogs and handlers in Africa, North, Central and South America and Asia.