Dr. Leo Douglas

Leo Douglas is an award-winning documentary film maker and Clinical Associate Professor at Liberal Studies. He is the 2023-2025 Director of the Caribbean Initiative within NYU's Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), and the past-president of BirdsCaribbean, the largest single international NGO focusing on the flora and fauna of the greater Caribbean region.

He received his Ph.D., a Masters of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology, and an Advanced Environmental Policy Certificate from Columbia University. He also holds a Masters of Philosophy degree in Zoology from the University of the West Indies, Jamaica. He is a former Fulbright OAS Ecology Scholar, Government of Jamaica Millennium Scholar, Musgrave Medal Winner - for Distinguished Eminence in the Field of Science, a Partners in Flight (PIF) Leadership Award Winner - for Outstanding Contribution to Bird Conservation, a 2021 NYU Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Faculty Award Recipient, a 2022 NYU Faculty Fellow-in-Residence (FFIR), and a 2026 NYU Arnold Grossman Faculty Award winner for his commitment to education, outreach, and advocacy that centers queer and trans understandings of the world