The Secret Life of Bears
Rae Wynn-Grant is a wildlife ecologist who researches how human activity influences the behavior of wild animals. She spends long periods in the wilderness, tracking and observing black and grizzly bears in the western United States and African lions in rural Kenya and Tanzania. Her wildlife exploration and media work have taken her to six continents and more than 25 countries.
A native Californian, Wynn-Grant attributes her interest in wildlife and conservation from the nature shows she watched on television as a child, and today she uses media to increase representation of Black scientists and explorers. Wynn-Grant, a faculty member at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California at Santa Barbara, is the host of the PBS podcast, Going Wild with Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant, which takes listeners deep into the heart of the world’s most remote jungles, savannas, tundras, mountains, and deserts. She is also the host of the NBC series Wild Kingdom, a new version of the iconic wildlife show.
The University Book Store will be onsite selling copies of Wild Life at the event.