Thi Mai Anh Tran

I am an environmental social scientist completing my Ph.D. in Forest Science at Michigan Technological University. My research interests are livelihood resilience, bridging Indigenous knowledges with Western Science, sustainability, and human dimensions in natural resources management. My dissertation is conducted as a research partnership with the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, funded by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture McIntire-Stennis, to understand the relationship between Ojibwe people and forests and their resiliency.

A graduate fellowship with AFOCO helped to fund my Master's study in Kookmin University, South Korea, exploring the communication strategies in reforestation participation. During my study, I have been working with more than 700 stakeholders, mostly rural households, tree planters, forest rangers, and hunters. Before that, I worked as a Field Researcher at Save Vietnam's Wildlife.