People

Cheryl Margoluis is the Executive Director of the CARE-WWF Alliance. Her focus is on how to best achieve both conservation and community well-being goals through programs that integrate conservation, climate, livelihoods, and health - with a focus on women and girls. She has a PhD from the Yale School of the Environment. She is bilingual (Spanish/English), desperately trying to become trilingual (French). She also has experience in the world of education, founding a bilingual 'green' school in Central America, and as a professor of Tropical Ecology and Human Ecology for 9 years. She has spent the last 15 years living in Guatemala and Costa Rica and has recently moved back to CA with her family. She is passionate about women in conservation and supporting women throughout the world, and serves as a board member for UN Women USA SF and volunteers at her local women's shelter.