Victoria Rachmaninoff is a Research Associate with the Global Restoration Initiative at the World Resources Institute, where she focuses on the nexus of biodiversity and landscape restoration. She also works directly for Initiative 20×20, a country-led effort that aims to bring 50 million hectares of degraded land in Latin America and the Caribbean into restoration by 2030. Victoria holds an M.S. in Ecosystem Science and Management and Environmental Policy from the University of Michigan and a B.A. in Anthropology and Studio Art from Carleton College