Flora Lu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Latin American and Latino Studies at UC Santa Cruz.  She received her A.B. in Human Biology with honors from Stanford University in 1993 and Ph.D. in Ecology from UNC-Chapel Hill in 1999. A National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow, UNC Royster Society Fellow, Lang Post-doctoral Fellow at Stanford University, and Stanford Distinguished Alumni Scholar, Flora has published in Conservation Biology, Human Ecology, Current Anthropology, Conservation and Society, Population Environment, and World Development.