Susan Perry, current President
of the Foundation, founded the Lomas Barbudal Monkey Project in 1990 and has
studied this population ever since. She is a Professor of Anthropology at UCLA
and was formerly director of the Cultural Phylogeny research group at the Max
Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Her primary interests are
social relationships, life history strategies, social learning, behavioral
ecology, development, and communication.
Lynn A. Fairbanks is the Treasurer
of the Foundation. Dr. Fairbanks is a widely published primatologist
and emeritus professor at UCLA, with a particular interest in longitudinal
studies of behavior, maternal care, development and genetics of nonhuman
primates.
Rhiannon MacCarter, Secretary of the Foundation, worked for the Lomas Barbudal Monkey Project as a field assistant and field site manager from 2011-2012. She received her B.S. from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, where she focused on environmental and evolutionary biology, as well as anthropology and primate behavioral ecology. Currently working on sustainable agricultural products in the private sector, she has continued to volunteer and assist with fund-raising for the monkey project as a board member.
Mark Grady is a UCLA
professor of law who specializes in law and economics. He is also interested in
biology and with Michael McGuire has taught courses in law and biology and has
also published articles in that relatively new discipline.