Alice MACHARIA

Alice Macharia serves as the Vice President of Africa Programs for the Jane Goodall Institute, where she develops and implements JGI’s community-led conservation strategies. As part of the organization’s signature Tacare approach, her work balances the needs of individual communities while encouraging them to become stewards of their environment, and strategically identifying and addressing threats to chimpanzee populations. 

Alice first began working at the Jane Goodall Institute as an intern and returned to JGI as a project coordinator after completing her education. Her work at the organization has since vastly expanded — her career highlights include leading JGI's efforts to obtain the largest single government grant of $19.9 million dollars and guiding her team’s efforts to expand and fully develop the work of JGI’s Tacare program in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. 

Alice’s hobbies include reading and traveling. Originally from Nairobi, Kenya, she now lives in the desert with her husband and two young children.