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Jocelyn Peskin
Assistant Director of Administration, Center for Latin American Studies
319E Grinter Hall
PO Box 115530
Gainesville, FL 32611-5530
Tel: 352-273-4704
Fax: 352-392-7682
Email: jpeskin@latam.ufl.edu
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Research Interests
Community-based conservation efforts, marine protected areas, sea turtle conservation, and Garífuna communities
Administrative Duties
Center program management, grant preparation and reporting
Geographic Expertise
Honduras, Costa Rica
Background
Jocelyn lived and worked in Central America as a field assistant on a sea turtle research project and as an animal tracker for a wildlife documentary in Santa Rosa National Park, Costa Rica; she was a science teacher in various bilingual schools in Tegucigalpa and the Bay Islands of Honduras; and served as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve, Honduras. In the US, she worked as the Program Manager for the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Mesoamerican & Caribbean Program and recently served as the Director of Outreach and Development for Peaceful Paths Domestic Abuse Network. Jocelyn holds a BA in Philosophy with a minor in Biology from Rutgers University and an MS in Geography from the University of Florida.