Lísley Gomes

PhD Student

Arizona State University

Google Scholar (*Also referred as Lisley P. Lemos in scholarly production)

I am a PhD student in the Biology & Society Program in partnership with the Resilient Conservation lab at NAU and the Conservation Innovations lab at ASU, where I will be researching the role of community-science on decision-making in conservation. I am a Brazilian conservation social scientist, and earned my BA in Biological Sciences at the Universidade Federal de Alfenas (Brazil) and my master’s in Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences from Virginia Tech (USA). For the past decade, I've worked in collaboration with several local organizations representing traditional communities' rights, with the Mamirauá Institute for Sustainable Development - a research unit of the Ministry of Science and Technology in Brazil - for the Amazonian Research Network on Wildlife Use (RedeFauna), and for the Latin American Network of Women in Conservation. As a researcher on human dimensions of wildlife conservation, I stand for an equitable world for people to promote biodiversity outcomes. I am a researcher that thinks outside of the box, capable of using multidisciplinary and participatory research, and other conservation social science tools. Thus, able to support conservation decision-making in a bottom-up fashion and help to promote local-to-global solutions for the biodiversity crisis.