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Angelica Almeyda is a PhD student in the Department of Anthropological Sciences at Stanford University where her academic advisor is Dr. William Durham. Angelica is also a graduate student researcher in Gregory Asner’s lab in the Department of Global Ecology. Angelica graduated as a Forest Engineer from La Molina University in Lima, Peru. Her engineering thesis explored the impacts of anthropogenic disturbance on recovery and composition of secondary forests in the Peruvian Amazon. Following several years working for non-profit organizations, where she conducted research with communities in the Amazon and in the Cordillera del Condor, she became interested in the social aspects of conservation and entered the University of Florida to obtain her M.A. in Latin American Studies and Tropical Conservation and Development under the guidance of Dr. Marianne Schmink. Her master’s research compared household social, economic and ecological cycles within smallholder farmers in the Amazonian communities of Iñapari, Peru and Assis, Brazil. Finishing her master’s work Angelica entered the PhD program in Anthropological Sciences at Stanford where her doctoral interests are in comparing the impacts of development policies across the Amazonian tri-national frontier of Bolivia, Brazil and Peru (otherwise known as the MAP region). Her research combines tri-monthly interviews with more than 300 households, combined with intensive spatial analysis using remotely sensed satellite imagery, to understand the negative and positive effects of development policies. She continues to remain involved in forest ecology projects, investigating nutrient cycling issues following slash/burn agriculture in the Amazon and has conducted research on social-economic consequences of eco-tourism in Costa Rica.
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