Nico Dauphin is a first year graduate student in International Agriculture and Rural Development. She has recently returned from four years of working in agriculture extension projects in francophone Africa, the West Indies, and the Pacific Islands (Micronesia). She specialized in crop extension for small farms and gardens for two years in Togo, West Africa, and Yap, Micronesia. She taught tropical horticulture for one year and assisted in launching a private secondary school in St. Lucia, Eastern Caribbean. Finally, she co-coordinated the Peace Corps' fisheries and forest/agricultural resource management projects in Gabon, Central Africa.
She has a BA from Yale University in Religious Studies. She took several courses at the Yale Forestry School, including one in ethnobotanical resources in the tropics. In designing her master's project, Nico hopes to focus on crop science and ethnobiology. She is honored to join the Cornell community.
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