Born and raised in Kenya, Salisha has always been passionate about cultural and ecological conservation. She left her corporate career in late 2012 to delve into environmental work, focused on using her entrepreneurial mindset and experience to conserve wildlife. To date, Salisha has led the coordination of an Africa-wide strategy to protect vultures, been a part of a leadership team of an organisation at the forefront of lion conservation and co-founded a grassroots conservation movement in Kenya. She likes to think of herself as a rebel with too many causes – activist, conservationist, and adventurer, dedicated to finding sustainable and novel solutions in community-led conservation. She is also a member of the African Conservation Leadership Network (ACLN) and a Kinship Fellow with an MBA from London Business School and an MPhil in Conservation Leadership from University of Cambridge. Her areas of interest include human-wildlife coexistence, sustainability of community efforts and impact measurement.