Nadia is the Carnivore Conservation Advocate for Project Coyote, where she advances compassionate, effective, science-based strategies to protect the carnivore species that are a pillar of healthy natural systems.

Nadia has worked as a policy analyst, investigative researcher, writer, and organizer on a range of environmental and social issues. Nadia spent several years in Sweden studying international relations and in Washington DC working for non-profit organizations that advance women’s health and rights. Nadia’s volunteer work then led her to pursue an interdisciplinary Master’s degree in environmental policy, during which she focused on principles of landscape-scale conservation and the ecological role of wolves.

Throughout her professional life, Nadia has advocated for the well-being of non-human and human communities. For over a decade at Earthworks, she exposed how the oil and gas industry harms air, water, the climate, and public health and leveraged that information to achieve state and federal policy reform and justice for frontline residents. Before joining Project Coyote, Nadia was working as a consultant on projects to hold industrial polluters accountable under U.S. environmental laws and with the Rewilding Institute to protect wolves and the habitat they need to survive.

Nadia feels very fortunate to have grown up playing in forests and streams, watching wildlife, and listening to birdsong. She has come full circle to the place that was always home, the Catskill Mountains of New York State, where she lives with her husband and their feline-canine pack. When not advocating for fair, respectful relationships with the planet and its diverse inhabitants, Nadia can be found hiking, swimming, biking, and hosting neighborhood dinners.