Tania Romero Bautista Society for Freshwater Science 2026 Annual Meeting

Tania Romero Bautista

Tania is currently pursuing her PhD in the Tropical Rivers Lab at Florida International University. She is passionate about supporting Amazonian communities in their journey toward sustainability and self-sufficiency. Tania was born and raised in Madre de Dios, Peru, where she began her path into community-based conservation. Tania is the recipient of the 2024 Fonseca Leadership Fellowship and Russell E. Train Education for Nature Program of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). Tania's current research interests focus on making conservation and sustainable development strategies more accessible to rural Amazonian communities and guiding policymakers in how to design and implement more comprehensive, integrative regulations for community-based freshwater management. Tania earned her master's degree in Sustainable Development Practice from the University of Florida (UF) in 2018 and her bachelor’s degree in Ecotourism from the National Amazonian University of Madre de Dios in 2012. Tania has also received numerous grants and awards during her professional and academic career, including The AAUW International Fellowship (2022), The Wildlife Conservation Network (WCN) Scholarship (2021), (2020) Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) Graduate Scholarship, the Wild Forests and Fauna Research Grant (2017), Tropical Conservation and Development Grant (2017), and Fulbright Graduate Fellowship (2016).