Dr. Jenna Lawrence is a biodiversity specialist. Her education and research experience has included work in the Peruvian Amazon, Jordan, the Dominican Republic, Kenya, and the Mekong region. As a Columbia Climate School Lecturer, she is faculty in the Sustainable Development Undergraduate Program, the M.S. Program in Sustainability Management, and the International Research Institute for Climate and Society. She also has an appointment at the American Museum of Natural History. She has previously been an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Barnard College, New York University, City University of New York, and Sarah Lawrence. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology at Columbia University and the New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology.