Rebecca McKay Steinberg

Rebecca recently joined AJES as the Executive Editor. Prior to AJES, Rebecca was an adjunct faculty member at North Country Community College where she taught Environmental Science and led students in conducting local interdisciplinary research. Saranac Lake has been her home for nearly a decade, but she has lived and worked across the country studying human-wildlife conflict and carnivore management. This previous experience includes working for the U.S. National Forest Service in the Sierra Nevada on a Pacific fisher and American marten study, the U.S. National Park Service in Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area on mountain lion and bobcat research, and for the University of Wyoming’s wolf, livestock, and elk studies in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. She has also rehabilitated wildlife near Everglades National Park and studied community-based wildlife conservation in southern Kenya. Locally, Rebecca has worked for the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s American marten study. She volunteers at the Adirondack Wildlife Refuge and Rehabilitation Center and serves on the planning committee for the Adirondack Youth Climate Summit. Rebecca is a 2010 recipient of the Doris Duke Conservation Fellowship. She holds a MESc in Environmental Science from the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies where she concentrated in the interdisciplinary policy sciences and the social ecology of conservation. She earned her BA in Environmental Science from Barnard College, Columbia University.