Debrupa joined the KTTC as a board member in November 2011.  She moved to Peterborough in April 2010 to work in the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and joined the KTTC after hearing about the great work they have been doing through friends in Fleming College.  Debrupa is passionate about Ecology and Conservation and has worked on a captive breeding project for the endangered Eastern Loggerhead Shrike and monitored bird populations in Costa Rica.