Adam Gamwell is a Public and Design Anthropologist and writing up his dissertation at Brandeis University. His doctoral research focuses on designing and implementing conservation methodologies for at-risk Andean crops in southern Peru. Working between academic and applied realms, Adam is a Research Fellow and consultant for Bioversity International where he combines ethnography, design anthropology, experimental research, and ecological economics to document local interventions into agricultural production to fight genetic erosion and the effects climate change.

His passions also lie in Public Anthropology and promoting social consciousness, empathy and dialogue through digital media. He created, co-hosts, and is creative director of This Anthro Life Podcast, a weekly program aimed at making holistic anthropological thinking and doing more accessible to wider publics.