Jay’s interview is with Dr. Joanna Lambert, Professor in the Environmental Studies Program in the Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Department at the University of Colorado. In addition to her teaching and research roles, Joanna Lambert has served as an advisor to the United Nations Environment Programme and other organizations. She is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and a Fellow of the Linnaean Society of London. She has published hundreds of scientific articles and several books and has spent the last 30 years of her career investigating mammal ecology in remote landscapes around the world, including Africa, Asia, Central and South America. Most recently, she has been researching coyotes in areas with wolves, like Yellowstone National Park and areas without wolves, like Colorado. She spends as much time as she can in wild places, striving for optimism in a challenging world.