J Shell intervies Joe Figel, an Adjunct Faculty member at Highline College in Des Moines, Washington. Joe is adjunct faculty in the Biology Department at Highline College in Des Moines, Washington. Joe Figel is a graduate of the Conservation Biology PhD Program at the University of Central Florida (2017). He received a M.Sc. in Environmental Studies from Florida International University (2008) and a B.Sc. in Wildlife Conservation from the University of Washington (2005). During his graduate studies, Joe studied jaguars (Panthera onca) in Latin America, collaborating and co-publishing with colleagues from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and Colombia. As a current U.S. Fulbright Scholar in Indonesia, he has partnered with Universitas Syiah Kuala in efforts to assess the status of Sumatran tigers (Panthera tigris sumatrae) in northern Sumatra.