Brooke is an elephant researcher and a PhD candidate researching the use of elephant ethology as a metric to determine the success of management interventions in Thailand and South Africa to achieve greater insight into the benefits of elephant behaviour as a form of wildlife management and policy development, as well as to advance the field of elephant ethology. She received her MSc from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, where she conducted award-winning research on the anthropogenic effects on endangered wildlife. Her MSc and PhD research emphasizes research-based approaches to determining best practices in wildlife management and mitigating human-induced impacts on vulnerable wildlife populations.