Skip to content

Category: Grantee Spotlight

Grantee Spotlight: Clara Mariencheck

Learn about Clara Mariencheck, a PhD Candidate in the Center for the Advanced Study of Human Paleobiology at the George Washington University whose research explores primate genetics, immunogenetics, and sociality. She received a Leakey Foundation grant in 2024 for her project called “How an extra X chromosome may enhance immunity.”

Grantee Spotlight: Amy E. Clark

Amy Clark is an archaeologist whose field research is focused on the Middle Stone Age in Morocco. She received a Leakey Foundation grant in 2020, for archaeological excavations at Jorf el Hamam in southwest Morocco.

Grantee Spotlight: Pamela Akuku

Leakey Foundation Baldwin Fellow Pamela Akuku uses fossilized animal bones to reconstruct ancient environments and understand the animals and hominins of prehistoric times.

Grantee Spotlight: Ingrid Holzmann

Leakey Foundation grantee Ingrid Holzmann is studying how wild howler monkeys respond to their neighbors in order to better understand the impact of these relationships.

I [name], of [city, state ZIP], bequeath the sum of $[ ] or [ ] percent of my estate to L.S.B. Leakey Foundation for Research Related to Man’s Origins, Behavior & Survival, (dba The Leakey Foundation), a nonprofit organization with a business address of 1003B O’Reilly Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94129 and a tax identification number 95-2536475 for its unrestricted use and purpose.

If you have questions, please contact Sharal Camisa Smith sharal at leakeyfoundation.org. 

This will close in 0 seconds