Kai was one of 20 mid-career academics from Canada, Mexico, and USA selected as an Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellow. http://leopoldleadership.stanford.edu/
The program “provides outstanding academic environmental researchers with skills and approaches for communicating and working with partners in NGOs, business, government and communities to integrate science into decision‐making”. Funded by the Packard and Hewlett Foundations, housed at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment.