Patricia Wright
Patricia Wright
Patricia Chapple Wright is an American primatologist, anthropologist, and conservationist. Wright is best known for her extensive study of social and family interactions of wild lemurs in Madagascar. She established the Institute for the Conservation of Tropical Environments at Stony Brook University. She worked extensively on conservation and contributed to the establishment of the Ranomafana National Park in Madagascar...
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There are very few people advocating for the poor in this state or in the country. Poor people have no voice.
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They were looking for a Harvard government major to be a lobbyist for the state of Massachusetts. That was the first and best job I ever had.
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We hit a nerve. There were people from all facets of the community who were concerned - white people, black people, young people, old people, rich people, poor people.
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Everyone who wanted an opportunity to speak, got a chance to speak. These are people who had an opportunity to interface with policy makers in a matter that they might not have otherwise had. They were looking at the problem of poverty from so many angles, but they were of one accord.
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After all the attention from this article. I was told that the pressure I put on helped to push the compromise. The original bill called for immediate implementation.
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There were leaders from around the world at the institute, so my appetite was whetted for this.
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I'm proud to say we were not standing around the reflecting pool. We were in the House of Representatives, and they briefed us as to what was going on, on the Hill that week.
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In essence, we want to know if Title I funds will be withheld if we exempt non-Title I schools that don't get the money. That is the million-dollar question.
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I honestly am gratified that the process works. I don't want to do away with our system. I want to make it work for everyone.
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Lemurs are extraordinarily leapers. I mean they are just really going from tree to tree and then if there is not a tree, they just come down to the ground very gracefully. But it is the music that makes them seem to be dancing. They are basically getting from one place to another and that's just natural for them. They are just natural acrobatic dancers, just the way they move. It's beautiful!
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My first job was actually as a social worker. And then later, I got my PhD in anthropology. And I've always been interested in humans as well as primates. We are all kind of have the same emotions, the same goals and lives really. But to me, when I first got to Madagascar I realized that the lemurs lives are very closely related to what the humans are doing; partially because they've got both looking for natural resources. And if we can make some way that both humans and lemurs can live together peaceably and happily, that would be my goal for Madagascar.
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There's over 100 species of lemurs. Each is a little bit different in their social structure except for one thing: they are all female dominant. The females are the leaders. They are the ones that call the shots. When you watch a group, you can see the females are the first one to say "We're going to move." Then she moves off and everybody just follows.