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Whitney Brim-DeForest
Director

Whitney Brim-DeForest graduated from Brown University in 2004. Her honors thesis focused on the gliding kinematics of the Southern flying squirrel (Glaucomys volans), working under the direction of Professor Sharon Swartz and Doctoral candidate Kristin Bishop. She recently worked as a research assistant for Professor Douglass Morse (2004) at the Darling Marine Center, in the field of entomology. She has volunteered around the world with World-Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms, promoting sustainable agriculture. She is currently serving in the Peace Corps in Senegal (through 2006), where she will be working with local farmers. She heads most of the research at The White Kiwi Foundation.

Whitney@whitekiwi.org