Join this interactive networking and ideation session led by Dr. Jennifer Solomon of Colorado State Univeristy and Imbricata Consulting Co-founder and Manager, Jennifer Chapman.
Explore the potential of women working to empower one another in this conservation space. This is a closed session solely for people who identify as women and male attendees will have to sit this one out.

Jen Solomon is an Associate Professor in Human Dimensions of Natural Resources at Colorado State University where she serves as Director of the Conservation Leadership graduate program. She earned a PhD from University of Florida in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation. Her work as a social scientist is centered on biodiversity conservation. She enjoys collaborating with government agencies and NGOs on applied research questions, as well as working closely with students. In recent years, she has focused research efforts on women in conservation leadership, as their leadership is critical to equitable and effective conservation. In particular, she is interested in understanding and addressing the challenges women face in rising to leadership and effective supports that may sustain women in conservation. She is the proud mother of two children and loves spending time with them and her partner, hiking in the mountains and snorkeling in the sea. She has lived and worked in East Africa, Latin America, North America and Oceania and has been especially privileged to collaborate with many talented and dedicated women conservationists in Belize and beyond.

Jennifer Chapman has fifteen years of experience in the conservation sector, with a primary focus on marine management in Belize. She specializes in human-centered approaches, particularly social equity and inclusion, participatory processes, monitoring and evaluation, and the development of social safeguards. Jen has led and collaborated on projects with national and international governmental, non-governmental, and multilateral organizations, focusing on marine protected area management, integrated coastal zone management, reef resilience, climate justice, and marine spatial planning. In 2014, she was selected as a Kinship Conservation Fellow, a prestigious program for conservation leaders advancing innovative, market-based solutions for lasting conservation impacts. Jennifer holds a Bachelor’s degree in Biology from the University of Southampton and is a co-founder of Imbricata Consulting.