Constance Rogers Roosevelt has been a book editor for 30 years at Time/Life Books, American Heritage, William Morrow and Company and Viking Press. She has an MA in Anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania and for the past 10 years has traveled to tropical forests in Africa, Asia and South America and written over a dozen articles on endangered primates and ecotourism in the New York Times Science and Travel sections. She is currently enrolled in an MA program in Conservation Biology at Columbia University and continues to write and speak about science and conservation. She has served on a number of non profit boards including the Brooklyn Museum and the NY State board of The Nature Conservancy.