Wilson is a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow and a Ph.D. Student at the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. He is interested in the sociocultural factors which shape human-wildlife interaction in shared landscapes and the ecological repercussions of these interactions.
Prior to joining IOES, Wilson worked with a range of wildlife conservation organizations in the United States, Ghana, Sierra Leone, and Namibia. Most recently, Wilson conducted social science and animal welfare research as a program manager for the Conservation Society of California, Oakland Zoo. He holds a B.S. in Conservation & Resource Studies and a B.A. in Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley.