Director, Communities and Markets

Augusta coordinates the strategic analysis and networking activities of the Initiative, and takes a lead in Rights and Resources on coordinating with coalition members and activities in Latin America. She is involved in analyses of trends and opportunities for community forest enterprises - with country analyses of Brazil and Mexico, trends and issues in new markets, and comunity networking exchanging experiences, general connectivity, and for accessing market intelligence and influencing and shaping policy frameworks for forest conservation and forest management. Before joining Rights and Resources in 2006, Augusta was a program manager with Forest Trends on development assignment from the World Bank, and from 1992-2002, a project officer in the World Bank for a portfolio of natural resource management and indigenous peoples' projects in the Latin America and Caribbean Region. From 1988 to 1992, she was part of the Asia environment team for World Bank, on social and environmental safeguards and gender issues. Since 1980, she has worked as a consultant to the UNICEF office in Santiago, Chile, the US Agency for International Development, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the Government of Nepal and the World Bank on forestry and gender issues. She has a PhD in anthropology and a Masters in South Asian Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is fluent in Spanish and speaks two Nepali languages, Kham and Nepali.