Ben Wasserman

Policy Intern
bwasserman@wildlife.org

Originally from Long Island, New York, Ben Wasserman graduated with a bachelor's degrees in Wildlife Ecology and Mathematics from the University of Maine, where he was a member of the Student Chapter of TWS.  He has held jobs researching numerous wildlife species including American marten, Arctic charr, and Texas horned lizards; and completed his thesis on the contemporary evolution of feeding ecology in Trinidadian guppies. He recently returned from serving as a United States Peace Corps Volunteer in Fiji, where he advised an indigenous Fijian village on natural resource management and sustainable economic development. During this internship, Ben hopes to learn about working in the field of environmental policy and whether he’'d like to make a career out of it, continue on in science, or maybe pursue both.