People

As project coordinator for the Global Locust Initiative, Mira’s role is to collaborate with stakeholders and GLI Network members to develop and activate projects, events, and research. She manages multiple projects for the GLI and is passionate about educational outreach and making resources transparent and free for all. Mira is an alumnus of GLI Labs and did her graduate work in Senegal where she studied plant-soil-insect-farmer interactions. Mira’s interests are rooted in understanding how soil care and land-use practices can create sustainable alternatives to locust/grasshopper management, and more recently, how humanities and art can lead to new perspectives on human…

Project Manager (PMP) with experience establishing operations in research centers and managing web projects, scientific projects, proposal development, and writing efforts.

Mehreen is an NSF-funded Ph.D. student in the Environmental Life Sciences program at Arizona State University interested in understanding biopesticides’ effects on locusts’ immune function while integrating the effect of phase-dependent polyphenism in her studies to uncover biochemical pathways. She is an international student from Pakistan who completed her matriculation in Pakistan and was awarded the competitive Kennedy Lugar Youth Exchange and Study (KL-YES) scholarship by the US Department of State to study in the US and was later awarded a full-ride scholarship to finish her high school in the US, becoming the first girl in her family and her…