Mal Graham

I lead the Wildlife Technology Fund at Renaissance Philanthropy. 

Previously, I was the strategy director at Wild Animal Initiative, a scientific nonprofit supporting research into wild animal welfare. 

Alongside my work at Wild Animal Initiative, I completed a PhD and a postdoc. My PhD was in Engineering Mechanics at Virginia Tech, working with Jake Socha on the biomechanics of gap crossing in jumping and gliding snakes.  My postdoc was completed at NYU within the Wildlife Inclusive Local Design (WILD) Lab, working with Jeff Sebo studying urban wild animal welfare. 

Academic bureaucracy survey:  I'm very interested in how we, as a society, complete science and solve problems. This is a pretty casual survey attempt to get some quantitative data on bureaucracy at different institutions, so we can incentivize improvements. You can take the survey here, or read about why I started it here. 

I have a keen interest in animal welfare and how it is considered within the sciences. 

• I am the Board Treasurer for the Arthropoda Foundation, which makes grants to study insect welfare. 

• I have served as a member of the BAHSCR Roundtable on Animal Welfare

• I have served as an advisory board member for the Morris Animal Foundation for grants focused on the health and welfare of reptiles & amphibians.