Aja Sherman is a bat biologist, specialized in taxonomy, data mining, and conservation education. Aja started her career as a zookeeper and then a scientific assistant at the American Museum of Natural History. Aja has an undergraduate degree in Psych/Bio and a master’s degree in Biology from Long Island University. Her graduate thesis explored ancestral state reconstructions based on chiropteran hip morphology. After completing her education, Aja went on to direct the education and animal care teams for the Organization for Bat Conservation before the organization folded in 2018. Since then, she has been involved in several bat research collaborations. Aja often instructs college Biology courses and has been a leading member of the North American Society for Bat Research (NASBR) Education and Outreach Committee since 2019. Aja started gathering bat roosting data in 2021 for the COVID-19 Task Force Co-Roosting Project before becoming the Database Curator for the Bat Eco-Interactions Project in 2022.  

Erin joined the Bat Conservation Internation in 2019 and is proud to be doing community engagement work on behalf of the organization. Erin double majored in Wildlife Conservation and Entomology from the University of Delaware and received her MS in Wildlife Ecology from the Cesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute at Texas A&M University-Kingsville.  She has over 10 years of experience working as a wildlife biologist and running environmentally-focused volunteer, outreach, and education programs. Erin is happiest working at the intersection of science communication and citizen empowerment. She loves working outside and getting people excited about environmental stewardship and wildlife conservation.