María Alejandra is a second-year Master of Forest Sciences (MFS) ’26 candidate at Yale School of Environment. She holds a B.S. in Forest Sciences from the University of British Columbia, from Vancouver, Canada. She is originally from Panama and has experience working in forestry research projects at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. She also worked as the Science and Certification Coordinator a reforestation company based in Panama. She is interested in tropical forests, especially their resilience to climate change. She is working in Dr. Liza Comita’s Lab, looking at the effects of the dry and wet seasons on seedling performance.
