Joli is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Sunderland lab, Faculty of Forestry in University of British Columbia, Canada. Her broad research interests are sustainable management of agricultural landscapes for biodiversity conservation and human well-being and ecosystem services management. Joli’s doctoral work at the University of Sheffield, UK assessed the potential of conservation interventions in effectively managing shifting cultivation for reducing biodiversity loss and carbon emissions in Northeast India. Post-PhD, she worked as a Conservation Officer at Royal Society for Protection of Birds (RSPB). Her role involved providing conservation advice to farmers for sustainable management of the Irish countryside in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.