Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant is the co-host of NBC’s Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom: Protecting the Wild and a renowned wildlife ecologist focused on how human activity impacts large carnivores. She has studied mountain lions on the California coast, grizzly bears in the Northern Great Plains, black bears in the Western Great Basin, lions in rural Kenya and Tanzania, and lemurs in Madagascar. She is the creator and host of award-winning podcast Going Wild with Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant produced by PBS Nature, and author of the forthcoming memoir Wild Life, published by Zando and Get Lifted Books. Dr. Wynn-Grant received her Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolution from Columbia University. She is currently a Research Faculty member at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at UC Santa Barbara.