Maya Moore
L4E Alum – University of Vermont
Email: maya.moore@uvm.edu

Maya Moore is a social scientist with a focus on food security and nutrition, biodiversity conservation and the gendered dimensions of climate change adaptation among smallholder farmers. With 20 years of international conservation and development experience, she has worked across West Africa (Niger), Madagascar, Southeast Asia (Thailand) and Central America (Guatemala). Maya holds a transdisciplinary PhD in Food Systems and a graduate certificate in Agroecology from the Gund Institute for Environment at the University of Vermont. She also has an MA in Sustainable International Development and a BS in Biology and French. Her dissertation research focused on food procurement strategies and agricultural decision-making among forest-edge smallholder farmers in Madagascar. Other research interests include gender dimensions of climate change adaptation and climate change's impact on farmer livelihoods, health, and migration. Currently, Maya is a Postdoctoral Research Scientist at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) at the Columbia Climate School where she is exploring the gendered dimensions of climate information services in Guatemala and sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), as well as seed adoption in SSA and India. She loves to travel, experience different cultures and try the food!
PUBLICATIONS & OTHER WORKS
From the Anthropocene to Mutual Thriving: An Agenda for Higher Education in the Ecozoic
L4E Contributors: Ivan Vargas Roncancio, Leah Temper, Joshua Sterlin, Nina L. Smolyar, Shaun Sellers, Maya Moore, Rigo Melgar-Melgar, Jolyon Larson, Catherine Horner, Jon D. Erickson, Megan Egler, Peter G. Brown, Emille Boulot, Tina Beigi and Michael Babcock