OSUN Faculty

Cynthia Malone

Cynthia Malone is an ecologist, artist, and abolitionist. She has researched wildlife ecologies, primatology, and stewardship alongside Black and Indigenous peoples globally for over 15 years. Cynthia completed her Bachelors of Science in Zoology and Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she researched the nesting ecology of orangutans in Indonesia for her undergraduate honors thesis. For her Masters in Conservation Biology at Columbia University, she explored shifting relationships between farmers and wildlife in Cameroon. As a scholar and organizer in the movement for Black lives, Cynthia lent fire to a global disruption of colonial scientific institutions. Her current research, art, and ancestral archiving unfolds throughout the Caribbean and South America.