Michelle Lynn D'Souza

Biodiversity Scientist | Research Consultant | Digital Media Producer

Dr. Michelle Lynn D’Souza, PhD (she/her) is a molecular ecologist whose work focuses on biodiversity conservation, community engagement, and knowledge mobilization.

About her

Michelle is a passionate first-generation scientist whose research approach values accessibility, equity, community engagement, and creativity.

She has forged partnerships with several global networks, providing institutional support for projects in Argentina, Costa Rica, Ghana, Honduras, South Africa, the US, and the UK.

Valuing science literacy and the power of storytelling has led her to create a digital body of work that increases the accessibility of scientific research including videos, websites, and an online science magazine.

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Society better understands science…

**Featured on Re:TVs series RE:thinking food — July 2023**

**Interviewed by CBC’s The National—’We are at risk of erasing the books of life’: Biologists work to chronicle life on earth — Jun 2019**

**Redesigned and presented the iBOL Consortium website to the iBOL Science Committee at the BIOSCAN project launch — Oct 2018**

**Interviewed Dr. Fred Aboagye-Antwi at the University of Ghana for the video production of collaborative research with Target Malaria — Mar 2020**

**Managed the Kruger Malaise Program in Kruger National Park, South Africa — Apr 2019**

**Consulted communities in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, at the onset of the ARCBIO project — Feb 2018**

… when scientists tell compelling stories.