Helena Grant was born and brought up in Hong Kong and lived there for the first 18 years of her life. She then spent some time in the UK training to be a teacher before moving to Greece and then Tanzania, a country that she fell in love with years before when her father was based in Dar es Salaam. She worked in a school in Arusha for 3 years and then when she left published an East African educational children's magazine. She currently lives in Arusha with her husband Steve and son Oliver and is working on several educational leaflet projects, including PPF!

Catherine Picard is a doctoral student at the Yale School of Forestry &
Environmental Studies. Her research interests include a specific focus on the
social impacts and governance implications of the proposed Selous-Niassa
wildlife corridor and the establishment of Wildlife Management Areas in
southern Tanzania. Previously, she spent five years with the John D. and
Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation as a Program Officer and the Director for
Program Administration in the Program on Global Security and Sustainability. Ms. Picard has a B.S. from the University of California at Berkeley and a M.S. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Heather Arrowood is a Master of Environmental Science candidate at Yale University with a social science emphasis.  She holds a B.S. in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Biology from the University of Wisconsin.  She has worked for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources in the wildlife research division, and as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Cameroon.  She is currently doing fieldwork for her master’s thesis on Maasai perceptions of Tarangire National Park and the tourism industry.

Christa Anderson is an undergraduate at Yale majoring in Environmental Studies.
She is working on PPF's Livestock Predation Program for the summer of 2006.
From the PPF field site, she is investigating incidents of predation,
collecting GIS and demographic data for the village of Loibor Serrit and
observing Maasai herding strategies.

Henry Karongo is an undergraduate at Yale University. His academic interests include computer science and economics. During the summer of 2006, he worked with PPF as they developed their new website, providing technical assistance and consulting on content development. He enjoys the performing arts as well as an occasional round of golf.