Dr. Kate Weiss

Dr. Kate Weiss is currently an Assistant Professor of Environmental Science at Marist University. Her PhD research focused on understanding how wild carnivores make decisions about what they eat in urban environments. Now, her work focuses on understanding how to promote more sustainable futures for people and wildlife species by incorporating social, ecological, and evolutionary approaches. In this video, Kate talks about the obstacles to finishing her dissertation, and how she overcame the expectations she set for herself based on what she thought grad school was going to look like for her, and what it seemed to look like for those around her.