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Tanzania-Zanzibar: Coastal Ecology & Natural Resource Management

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Helen Peeks, Academic Director

Helen Peeks received a BA in Environment and Social Values from Glamorgan University, Wales, in 1996 and her Master’s degree in Environment and Development from Cambridge University in 2001. For the last 15 years, she has worked in Zanzibar, Tanzania, Uganda, USA and Japan in the field of education. Helen directed a volunteer program in Tanzania and managed a school-linking program in Uganda in 2002. More recently, Helen has been working with the award winning marine conservation and eco-tourism project Chumbe Island Coral Park, in Zanzibar, where she has been the general project manager for the last four years. In addition to her background in environmental education, she is a published photographer, and has studied counseling and alternative healthcare.