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My favorite quote about leadership and courage is from Ralph Waldo Emerson,
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who wrote, “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” No one exemplifies this as well as Dr. Jane Goodall. When she was a young woman, she left the comfort of her home in England for Africa in search of adventure and a life spent living and working with wildlife. What she found there was a connection with nature that was so powerful she dedicated her entire life to studying it, fighting to preserve it, and teaching others to love it too. National Geographic has been a part of Jane’s journey since funding her early work in Gombe Stream National Park in the 1960s. Sixty years later, we are proud to consider her one of our most accomplished explorers, not only for her scientific achievements, but also for the many millions of people she has touched and inspired along the way. In many ways, her story is our story—and this year we celebrate her incredible contributions and a career that demonstrates what one person can achieve. This exhibition allows you to experience Jane’s story in a whole new way. We hope visitors will feel as if they are walking in her shoes and joining her in the field. This project would not have been possible without the support and partnership of the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI), an organization founded by Jane to fulfill many of her important global initiatives. JGI’s talented team has been an invaluable resource on many levels. Also, a special thanks to the Linda K. Berdine Foundation and to Dov and Elma Levy for their generous support of this exhibition. “Becoming Jane” will be on view here in Washington, D.C., through the summer of 2020. Our goal is to tell Jane’s story and to inspire our audiences to choose the path less chosen—and leave a trail. Enjoy!
KATHRYN KEANE VICE PRESIDENT OF PUBLIC PROGRAMMING AND DIRECTOR OF THE MUSEUM
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Michael L. Ulica President and Chief Operating Officer Kalee Kreider Chief of Content, Communications, and Public Affairs Kathryn Keane Vice President of Public Programming and Director of the Museum Alan Parente Vice President and Creative Director Tibor Acs Multimedia and AV Manager Erin Branigan Exhibitions Content Specialist Austin Braswell Senior Graphic Designer Ivan (Spanky) Campbell Exhibition Production and Operations Associate Catherine Clark Exhibitions Coordinator Seth de Matties Traveling Exhibitions Manager Brianna DeOrsey Group Sales Specialist Cynthia Doumbia International Traveling Exhibitions Director Cole Fiala International Traveling Exhibitions Manager Kyle Garber Visitor Experience Manager Charlette Hove Senior Exhibition Designer Lauren Ippolito Exhibitions Manager Lindsay Marcus Museum and Ticketing Operations Manager Edward Mooney Exhibition Design Director Ivo Morales Museum Operations and Planning Director Joel Persels Exhibition Production and Operations Manager Brit Shoaf Lead Exhibition Designer Jeff Thomas Print Production Specialist Jennifer Wallace Museum Partnerships Director Special thanks to the Live Events, Marketing & Communication, Visitor Experience, and Museum Store teams E-Squared Editorial Services Editorial and Design Emily Esterson, Editor Glenna Stocks, Art Director
CONTENTS 2 Welcome From the
Museum Director
4 Jane’s Discoveries
Life at Gombe
6 Q&A With
Jane Goodall
8 Meet the
Chimps of Gombe
10 Inside the Tent
Science, Then and Now
12 Inside the Exhibition
How’d They Do That?
14 Spreading the Message of Hope
From Scientist to Activist
16 JGI and Roots & Shoots
Founding a Future
18 Inspired by Jane
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Early on, Jane climbed trees to get closer to chimpanzees.
Jane’s Discoveries
Life at Gombe “ I C A N N O T R E M E M B E R A T I M E W H E N I D I D N O T W A N T TO G O TO A F R I C A TO ST U D Y A N I M A LS ,” Jane Goodall wrote in 1963, in her first article for National
Geographic magazine. At an early age, Jane was inspired by fictional characters Tarzan and Doctor Dolittle, motivating her to save up funds to travel to Kenya in 1957. There she met paleoanthropologist Dr. Louis Leakey who was studying human evolution. Dr. Leakey was looking for someone with a fresh mind uncluttered by academia to study wild chimpanzees, our closest living relatives, in hope that it would help shed light on the behavior of early humans. Jane was the perfect fit. On July 14, 1960, 26-year-old Jane began her journey of discovery in Gombe, Tanzania. For months Jane struggled, hoping to catch more than a glimpse of the elusive chimpanzees. At first Jane watched through binoculars from a mountaintop and wrote extensive notes on personalities and interactions. Her research methods challenged the scientific norms of the time, as she named her subjects rather than numbering them, and acknowledged their intelligence, emotions, and personalities—qualities previously thought to be uniquely human. Eventually, the chimpanzees allowed her to get closer and Jane came to know them as individuals.
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Within a few months, and as funding was about to run out, Jane’s patient observations finally paid off in a series of discoveries that rocked the scientific world. In the autumn of 1960, Jane witnessed a group of chimpanzees hunt and eat a red colobus monkey, demonstrating that they are omnivores, like humans, though we now know that meat comprises only a tiny part of their diet. Mere days later, Jane watched a chimpanzee she had named David Greybeard strip the leaves off a twig and insert it into a termite mound. When David extracted the twig, it was covered with termites, which he ate. David had made and used a tool. At the time, tool creation and use were the key differentiators between humans and other animals. When Jane cabled the news to Dr. Leakey, he responded, “Now we must redefine tool, redefine man, or accept chimpanzees as human.” This discovery reshaped our understanding of our relationship to the rest of the animal kingdom.
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Jane learned that we also share many other complex social behaviors. She observed close bonds between members of a chimpanzee community. Jane noted that though the matriarch of the group, Flo, carried her son Flint on her back, Flo’s older offspring helped raise and play with younger siblings. Simultaneously, Jane was shocked by what could be considered primitive warfare. She observed a violent war that lasted four years and resulted in many deaths. Jane wrote: “When I first started at Gombe, I thought the chimpanzees were nicer than we are…They can be just as awful.” In contrast, Jane also witnessed chimpanzees comforting each other and mourning loved ones, showing their emotional and altruistic side.
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Flo carried Flint on her back.
In 1967, Jane established a research center in Gombe and began what now holds the Guinness World Record as the longest-running wild chimpanzee study. In the 60 years since Jane’s arrival, generations of scientists through the Jane Goodall Institute’s Gombe Stream Research Center have made remarkable discoveries, allowing us to better understand chimpanzees, other primates, and ourselves.
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DR. JANE GOODALL How did you fall in love with Africa? As a young girl, what did you
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imagine yourself doing there?
There was no TV then, so I read books about animals, particularly Doctor Dolittle and Tarzan. By 10 years old, I was determined to go to Africa, live with wild animals, and write books about them. How did the reality of Africa compare to your childhood dreams?
just search for them. I would sit and watch through binoculars, drinking a bit of water from the stream. I would return to camp at dusk when Dominic [our cook] would have cooked supper. Then I’d write in my journal—initially with a pen, then later I’d use a typewriter.
Impressions before you got there— then once you arrived?
How hard was it? Did you ever
When I got to the Serengeti, Ngorongoro, and Olduvai Gorge [with Dr. Louis Leakey] it was exactly the Africa I had dreamed about. Two years later I arrived at Gombe—and this was my Tarzan forest.
come close to quitting? How did
What was everyday life like there?
Every day was different and what I did depended on where I was. In Gombe, I got up before it was light, had a cup of coffee from a thermos and bit of bread. Then I would climb up to the peak, or go to where chimps had nested overnight, or
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you overcome your doubts and challenges? Who or what inspired you to keep going?
The first few months were very hard as the chimps ran away. But I never dreamed of quitting. Mostly I worried that after the first six months, the money would run out before I saw anything exciting. I was saved by observing David Greybeard making and using tools. That’s when National Geographic came in to take pictures, guaranteed the funding, and sent Hugo
And that to see this in wild chimpanzees was very exciting. I found it hard to believe
[van Lawick, photographer]. I always knew I would succeed given time. I wanted to learn about the chimps.
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and did not send a telegram to Louis Leakey until I had seen the behavior again, with a few other chimpanzees. NatGeoMuseum.org
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What memory of Gombe and the chimpanzees is most vivid and still
When old Flo allowed infant Flint, who was about five months old, to approach with those big eyes and reach out to touch me. The photo was on the cover of the National Geographic book My Friends the Wild Chimpanzees. What is Gombe’s most important legacy after 60 years of work there? What do you hope for the future there?
Helping science accept that we humans are not the only thinking, sentient beings. It is not only humans who have minds capable of solving problems, have personalities, and experience emotions like happiness and sadness. This is what I was told at Cambridge University in 1962—that the difference between humans and animals was one of a kind. Instead it is differences of degrees. When you first saw David Greybeard using a stem to dig out termites, did you know you had made a great discovery? How did you react to that moment?
I knew that science believed that humans and only humans used and made tools.
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makes you smile all these years later?
David Greybeard used a twig as a tool.
Many people dream of following in your footsteps. What advice would you give young people today who might want to have an influence on the future of the planet?
I tell them they must REALLY want to do work in the field, which is difficult and hard to get funding for. I encourage all of them to get involved with JGI’s youth outreach program, Roots & Shoots. And I give them all my mother’s advice—work really hard, take advantage of all opportunities, never give up. I tell them that even if they have to do something different to get a job, they can always return to their dream later.
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EARLY CHIMPANZEES
THE CHIMPS OF GOMBE The “F” and “G” families of chimpanzees are the two most well-known groups of individuals studied in Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania. Jane’s observations of the matriarchs in both families led to some of her most important discoveries about infant development and family relationships, particularly mother-infant bonds.
Flo
FLO: Flo, elderly matriarch of the F-Family at the time of Jane’s arrival. The birth of Flo’s son Flint in 1964 allowed Jane to do extensive research on mother-infant relationships, following his progress from birth.
Fifi and Frodo
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FIFI: Flo’s first daughter, Fifi, was the first chimp Jane observed riding on her mother’s back. Fifi gave birth to nine offspring: Freud (born in 1971), Frodo, Fanni, Flossi, Faustino, Ferdinand, Fred, Flirt, and Furaha (born in 2002).
Faustino PHOTOS Counterclockwise from top: Hugo van Lawick/National Geographic; Jane Goodall/Jane Goodall Institute; Bill Wallauer/Jane Goodall Institute; Bill Wallauer/Jane Goodall Institute; Gardner Roberts
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Gremlin GREMLIN: Gremlin is the mother of famous twins Golden and Glitter, among her ten children. Twins are rare, with only three sets born so far at Gombe. Gremlin’s oldest daughter, Gaia, helped Gremlin care for the twins, ensuring their survival.
Golden and Glitter GOLDEN AND GLITTER: Twins Golden and Glitter with their mother, Gremlin, at Gombe National Park in Tanzania. The twins were the first pair to survive past infancy at Gombe.
PHOTOS left to right: Bill Wallauer/Jane Goodall Institute; Michael Neugebauer
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Inside the Tent
Science, Then and Now N OT E B O O KS , S E CO N D H A N D B I N O CU L A RS , A CAMERA, AND A MANUAL TYPEWRITER—
young Jane Goodall used these tools to record her groundbreaking observations of chimpanzees during the early 1960s in Gombe, Tanzania. Each day she took plentiful notes by hand and at night, by lantern light in an army tent, she would manually type these discoveries that would change the world. She recorded the locations and descriptions of chimpanzee behaviors—such as feeding, grooming, nest building, and tool use—hand drawing maps and making behavioral checklists. She named her research subjects rather than numbering them and described the intelligence, personalities, and emotions of individuals. Jane grew to intimately know
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Jane transcribed her hand-written notes on a manual typewriter.
her subjects and would divide her notes into individual files for chimpanzees like David Greybeard and Flo.
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Jane’s research methods were controversial at the time. Despite being initially challenged by scientists while she obtained her Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge, through perseverance and determination, Jane’s methods are now standard in the study of animal behavior. After five years in the field, Jane and then husband, National Geographic wildlife photographer/ filmmaker Hugo van Lawick, founded Gombe Stream Research Center. An exhibition organized in partnership with the Jane Goodall Institute
In the late 1980s, Jane learned that chimpanzee habitats beyond the protected area of Gombe Stream National Park were rapidly disappearing, and that chimpanzees could disappear too. Thus began a new effort to monitor chimpanzee behavior and habitats using high-tech tools. Today, field researchers and forest monitors of the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI) record their observations on smartphones or tablets that layer chimpanzee, human, and ecosystem attributes on digital maps.
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This also sparked Jane’s pioneering community-centered conservation approach through JGI to create holistic solutions to threats facing our closest living relatives. The integration of tablets, geospatial mapping, and other advanced tools and techniques for research has made possible a robust and growing list of insights. By using these tools and insights, JGI can provide near real-time data to develop plans and action in partnership with local communities around great ape habitat that improve well-being and protect ecosystems. The trailblazing study Jane began Forest monitors now use tablets to collect information. in Gombe with binoculars and notebooks continues today with these advanced tools. Its impact has been far-reaching in the fields of animal behavior, biology, ecology, psychology, and conservation science. Now researchers can focus on key areas for conservation, assess the state of habitats, and track progress by using science and technology in ways that were impossible only a decade ago.
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H A V E Y O U D R E A M E D O F O B S E R V I N G W I L D C H I M PA N Z E E S A N D M E E T I N G J A N E G O O D A L L? Thanks to technology, “Becoming Jane” allows you to
Creating a space that allows visitors to experience Jane’s evolution from curious child to budding scientist to celebrated activist required an innovative mix of research and technology, beginning with sourcing archival audio and video footage from the Jane Goodall Institute. The National Geographic Museum team and JGI then worked with two technology partners—Falcon’s Creative Group and NeoPangea—to build realistic digital environments that transport visitors into Jane’s story.
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do both—virtually.
To fully immerse visitors in Jane’s experiences, Falcon’s Creative Group developed photorealistic and high-fidelity computer-generated chimpanzees, which appear throughout the exhibition. They also Falcon’s Creative Group developed this computer-generated chimpanzee. created a life-size, hologram-like projection of Jane herself, allowing guests to hear her stories firsthand. To represent Gombe Stream National Park, Falcon’s developed a 270-degree, three-dimensional theater experience, combining high-definition footage with surround-sound audio. Bill Wallauer, JGI’s scientific advisor and wildlife filmmaker, shot custom footage in the forests of Gombe, enabling visitors to viscerally feel what it is like to explore this special place. To learn more about chimpanzee behavior, visitors can peek through augmented-reality binoculars, also developed by Falcon’s. These allow you to observe just like Jane did, projecting computer generated images of chimpanzees as if they were in the room. Visitors can also learn to vocalize in an interactive called “Chimp Chat,” which allows you to communicate with a virtual chimpanzee.
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Neo-Pangea, experts in interactive digital experiences, helped take exhibit pieces to the next level. To illustrate more of Jane’s findings, they produced a holographic version of one of Jane’s handwritten notebooks. Animated chimpanzees leap off the page through a holographic projection, demonstrating several unique behaviors.
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Through an interactive called “Tree of Hope,” created by Neo-Pangea, Jane’s message— that everyone can make a difference—comes to life. Visitors use touch screens to pledge to complete one of three positive actions for the planet. The pledge transforms into a leaf that grows on the digital tree. During the exhibition, the bare tree becomes full, illustrating how individual action can have a big collective impact. These experiences harness the latest in exhibition technology to provide a deeper appreciation and understanding of Jane’s life, innovative research, commitment to conservation, and activism, inspiring visitors to follow in her footsteps.
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Neo-Pangea created a digital “Tree of Hope.”
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Jane Goodall speaking at the Roots & Shoots Peace Day celebration near Los Angeles.
Spreading the Message of Hope
From Scientist to Activist J A N E G O O D A L L’ S W O R K A N D L I F E H A V E B E E N I N T E R T W I N E D F O R 6 0 Y E A R S , as evidenced by her all-consuming passion for the chimpanzees in Tanzania’s
Gombe Stream National Park and for the well-being of the global environment. For decades, she lived with the chimpanzees of Gombe, gaining groundbreaking insight into their lives and earning their trust. This gave her access that no other researcher had achieved—never mind that she didn’t have a formal scientific background or college degree—and her subsequent research revolutionized the study of animal behavior. In 1986, however, everything changed when Jane attended a conference in Chicago. There, she learned in stark terms how the chimpanzee population was rapidly declining— due to habitat loss, wildlife trafficking, the bushmeat trade, and disease. She also learned about captive conditions in medical research, the illegal pet trade, and the terrible state of chimpanzees used in entertainment. The devastating statistics, stories, and imagery completely devastated Jane, and in turn forever altered her legacy, as she became a full-time conservation and environmental activist. “I went to that conference as a scientist planning to carry on,” she said, “and I left as an activist. I didn’t make a decision. I was just a different person.” She began a near-perpetual lecture tour, which has her on the road as many as 300 days a year, imploring the world to heed the alarm on the destructive impact of human development on the natural world.
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In addition to her inspiring activism and Jane firmly believes that working lectures, Jane started collaboratively with local communities in a global conservation nonprofit, the Jane and around great ape habitat is the only Goodall Institute, and way to create enduring and holistic its Roots & Shoots conservation solutions, and that by inspiring program. JGI’s and empowering the next generation community-centered conservation approach, we can build a better world for humans, called Tacare, has other animals, and the planet we share. developed into a powerful, holistic program offering tools, funding, support, training, education, and planning to improve human well-being and mitigate threats to wildlife and ecosystems across the chimpanzee range. To also focus on creating a generation of environmental stewards, Jane established Roots & Shoots as a part of JGI in 1991 to engage youth in recognizing their power to make positive change in their communities by helping people, other animals, and the environment through service projects. By working in collaboration with local communities to develop sustainable systems that benefit their communities and protect wildlife, and inspiring young changemakers, Jane’s vision for a future where humans can live harmoniously with the natural world is becoming a reality.
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Ana has helped install fuel rocket stoves for families in her village, Kalinzi, Tanzania.
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Chimpanzees at the Tchimpounga Rehabilitation Center.
JGI and Roots & Shoots
Founding a Future IN 1977, JANE FOUNDED THE JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE to continue her groundbreaking research on the chimpanzee families of Gombe. Very early on, she realized that partnering with local communities was key to protecting Gombe’s chimpanzees. She pioneered community-centered conservation—an approach that recognizes the central role people play in the well-being of animals and habitats—and made it an important element of JGI’s main programs. But there was still more to do, especially if the organization was to truly create enduring change. Forty years later, JGI has trained nearly 300 forest rangers, monitors, and eco-guards who protect, map, and oversee community conservation areas throughout the chimpanzee range in Africa. JGI continues to study and protect the great apes of Tanzania, but now its results-based conservation strategies span 11 countries. Its global mission of wildlife and environmental conservation is bolstered by state-of-the-art mapping and bio-monitoring projects. It also fosters economic sustainability, educational and healthcare access and resources through training, scholarships, and more. JGI reaches more than 300,000 people through these programs and community partnerships. JGI also started the Tchimpounga Chimpanzee Rehabilitation Center in the Republic of the Congo. Founded in 1992, the sanctuary is surrounded by 129,000 acres of dense rainforest
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and serves as a safe haven for chimpanzees rescued from the illegal pet and bushmeat trade. Every year, poachers across the chimpanzee range kill thousands of great apes— many of them mothers—for the illegal trade in wildlife. Young chimpanzees are either orphaned or taken away to be sold as pets. While the sanctuary was originally envisioned to house only 60 chimpanzees, today it is home to nearly 150. The sanctuary staff also works with law enforcement and develops education and awareness activities on chimpanzee and habitat conservation.
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In 1991, local youth gathered on Jane Goodall’s front porch in Tanzania and expressed how they felt powerless against the problems in their world. As the students told stories and offered ideas, Jane realized the solution was right in front of them: They had the power to create change. The Jane Goodall Institute’s Roots & Shoots program was born.
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Empowering the Next Generation
Roots & Shoots Day of Service, San Francisco, October 11, 2017
Roots & Shoots provides the resources to encourage and motivate young people to take action on issues that matter to them. Today, the program’s tools and support are offered in over 50 countries, including in all 50 U.S. states. Through Jane’s message of hope and the Roots & Shoots model, youth DR. JANE GOODALL, DBE, FOUNDER around the world are encouraged to put OF THE JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE their ideas into action. Since 1991, millions & UN MESSENGER OF PEACE of students have taken on the challenge of making the world a better place for people, other animals, and the environment we share. Roots & Shoots youth are not only the future, they are the present—and they are changing the world.
“Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.”
No matter the issue, being a part of Roots & Shoots means choosing to be a changemaker and making the difference YOU want to make. As Jane says, every individual can make a difference.
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JANE GOODALL DREAMED FROM A YOUNG AGE OF LIVING IN A F R I C A A N D W O R K I N G W I T H A N I M A L S . When famed paleoanthropologist Dr. Louis Leakey hired her as a secretary, she didn’t realize she would soon be heading a research post for him in Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania, which she began in 1960. Her meteoric rise in the Jane’s soft-spoken demeanor, worlds of primatology, and later, consercommitment to education, vation, is now the stuff of legend, inspiring and doggedness to her work people, particularly women, around the have inspired me throughout world to focus their careers on scientific my career. It is an honor to research, environmental conservation, share this planet with her. and humanitarian efforts, including the —LYNDSIE BOURGON, WRITER AND women profiled here.
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Jane Goodall is a hero of mine, and her influence led to my pursuit of a career in wildlife conservation. I was very lucky to meet her a few years back and interview her for a story I was writing for the news site The Dodo. She was incredibly kind and generous with her time. —MELISSA CRONIN, WRITER
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Jane has been an inspiration to me since I first heard about her as a child! This year, when I received an Early Career Grant and became a National Geographic Explorer, I felt empowered following in Jane’s footsteps. I am part of #GenerationJane and commit to spending the rest of my life studying and protecting wildlife and wild places. —CALLIE VEELENTURF, MARINE BIOLOGIST WORKING WITH SEA TURTLES
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My students and I followed Jane’s stories of [chimps] David and Goliath, and Flo the fearless mother, as though we were hearing the next installment of an ongoing primate drama. Thanks, Jane, for giving us those valuable lessons about the Gombe chimps. —CLAUDIA CHANG, PROFESSOR OF ANTHROPOLOGY
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Dr. Laura Johnson, an associate professor in psychology at the University of Mississippi, has partnered with JGI to study the psychology of adolescents participating in the Roots & Shoots program, which joins service learning and youth activism to help people, other animals, and the environment. She has studied young people living in East Africa for years, collaborating with Roots & Shoots in particular since 2000, with the goal of improving nonprofit programming for those it is designed to serve and empower: adolescents worldwide who face environmental and humanitarian challenges in their communities. “I first pitched the idea of studying youth in Roots & Shoots back in 2000 when I was still in grad school. My sister Julie and I have been working with Roots & Shoots since then—it is like a global family.”
Dr. Elizabeth Lonsdorf is a professor and primatologist who studies primate behavior and development, particularly socialization practices in chimpanzee communities. She has been fascinated by Jane’s early discovery of chimps’ ability to create and use tools—making them much more closely aligned with humans than many people realized. Dr. Lonsdorf researches both at her home base at Franklin & Marshall College in Pennsylvania and also at Gombe. “Unlike many scientific fields,” she notes, “primatology has had outstanding female role models like Jane since the beginning. I feel extremely lucky that Jane and others paved the way for female scientists early on, and I try to continue that tradition.”
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Dr. Goodall’s dedication to her work at Gombe, her tireless advocacy for animals and people all around the world, and her passion for education combine to make her one of the strongest influences on my life. —AMANDA HARDIE, PH.D. CANDIDATE IN ANTHROPOLOGY
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