Start: September 30, 2025 11 a.m.
End: September 30, 2025
Location: L.A. Pittenger Student Center
Contact Details
Office of the President
We are pleased to welcome Mwezi “Badru” Mugerwa, the 2025 Indianapolis Prize Emerging Conservationist, as our guest lecturerer at Ball State at 11 a.m. on Sept. 30 in the Ballroom on the second floor of the L.A. Pittenger Student Center. The lecture is free and open to the public.
About the Speaker
Mugerwa is a Ugandan conservationist and researcher and is the founder and director of Embaka, a grassroots community-based conservation organization focused on the preservation of the African golden cat. He established the first-ever community-based anti-poaching conservation project focused on the African golden cat at Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park in Uganda. Mugerwa also created the African Golden Cat Conservation Alliance (AGCCA), a network of African nationals implementing conservation activities for the African golden cat across the species range. Additionally, Mugerwa serves as the president of the Society for Conservation Biology’s Africa Region and is the president-elect for the Society for Conservation Biology Global.