She completed her Ph.D. in Environmental and Natural Resources Policy in 2008 and has been awarded a one-year Ford Foundation Postdoctoral fellowship in the African American Studies Department at Syracuse University in the same year. Her dissertation was titled “Evaluating Environmental Awareness: A Case Study of the Nariva Swamp, Trinidad,” and her graduate studies at ESF were funded in part by a Fulbright grant. April’s research focus looks at environmental issues in the Caribbean examining the intersection between environmental psychology, environmental justice and natural resource management. Her latest research project is designed to examine the perceptions of different marginalized groups within the Caribbean to climate change and their methods of adaptations. More about her research, teaching, and service work can be found at http://aprilbaptiste.com.