- Country of origin: Australia
- Starting date: February 2019
Narelle graduated from the University of Queensland with an Ecology Honours. While studying, she has explored research on the topics of protected areas that overlap with tidal flats across the globe, brain morphology of leporids and marsupials, health benefits of greenspaces, and breeding program impacts on whitefish. She has also been a presenter for the Australian Marine Conservation Society and an executive for a Society for Conservation Biology Chapter. Narelle joined the Kalahari Meerkat Project to brush up on her field skills before venturing back into academia to focus on conservation.