Corey Dickinson

Corey is a recent graduate of Clark University, having completed his undergraduate degree in Geography with a minor in Environmental Science in May 2015. Corey is very passionate about the relationship between communities and the environment around them, and he has chosen to focus his career on issues related to this. While studying abroad at the University of Cape Town in South Africa, he studied how local indigenous groups worked with the environment around them, and he was fortunate enough to have the chance to engage with communities in the area on issues related to environmental security. He also had the opportunity to work with various sustainable communities in southern Africa during the summer after his study abroad term. Corey also was the sole organizer and designer of a major research project centered on nation of Nauru in the South Pacific. He worked with local government officials in Nauru to analyze the effectiveness of traditional agroforestry systems on the Nauruan economy and explored ways that these systems could be improved. This research eventually formed the basis of a TEDx talk delivered in the spring of 2015 at TEDxClarkUniversity. Since graduating, he has worked with a variety of different conservation initiatives, including the Worldwatch Institute in Washington, DC on their Transforming Cultures Project. Most recently, he has been an environmental educator with the United States National Park Service in both Kentucky and Colorado. Corey is extremely excited to return to the African continent to work with the Kasiisi Project, and he looks forward to trying to see as many large dangerous animals as he possibly can.