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.

Zarin Machanda is the Treasurer of the Foundation.  Dr. Machanda is a widely published primatologist, best known for her work on the social behavior and development of wild chimpanzees. She received her MA in Anthropology and her PhD in Human Evolutionary Biology, both from Harvard University, and is currently an Assistant Professor in the Anthropology and Biology departments at Tufts University. She is a Director of Long-term Research at the Kibale Chimpanzee Project and is on the Board of the Kasiisi Project, a community development organization in Uganda that works with school children living near Kibale National Park in Uganda.

Alexa Duchesneau, Secretary of the Foundation, worked for the Lomas Barbudal Monkey Project as a field assistant and field site manager from 2016-17. She received her B.S. from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, where she received degrees in Anthropology and Business Administration. She returned to Lomas Barbudal to conduct her dissertation research on nutritional ecology in the capuchins and is currently a PhD candidate at Yale University in Biological Anthropology.

 

Lynn 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.