Anita Hagy Ferguson is the Communications Program Manager for William & Mary's Institute for Integrative Conservation (Williamsburg, Virginia, USA). At the Institute, she works to enhance inclusive conservation communications that integrate diverse ways of knowing and being into conservation conversations, planning, and action. Anita holds MA and PhD degrees in interdisciplinary Environmental Social Science from Arizona State University. She earned her BS in Human Communication and minor in Philosophy from Southern Oregon University. Her research focuses on the philosophical and narrative constructions of animality, wildness, and wilderness, more-than-human perspectives, animal geographies, intercultural communication, human-wildlife and environmental conflict transformation, interdisciplinary knowledge synthesis, and inclusive conservation. She is a teacher of intercultural communication and conflict transformation, and she facilitates and consults on trans-sector, multi-scale landscape conservation efforts such as wildlife corridor and open space connectivity initiatives, in which humans and wild animals share space in rapidly changing environments. She is an advocate for the ethical treatment of animals, with a critical focus on the ethical treatment of animals in wildlife and landscape conservation. She is engaged in community rescue, support, foster, and rehoming initiatives for free-roaming cats.