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Keena Roberts (author)
Caroline "Keena" Cheney Roberts (born Caroline Cheney Seyfarth, January 10, 1984) is an American author and consumer health analyst. Her debut memoir, Wild Life: Dispatches from a Childhood of Baboons and Button-Downs, is about growing up in a tented research camp in Botswana and the transition back to the life an American private school student in a wealthy suburb of Philadelphia. The novel is expected to be published on November 12, 2019 by Grand Central Publishing, a division of Hachette Book Group[1].
Biography
Roberts was born in Palo Alto, California on January 10, 1984 to Dorothy Leavitt Cheney and Robert M. Seyfarth. She lived primarily in Kenya near Amboseli National Park until age four while her primatologist parents studied vervet monkeys. Her family then relocated to Devon, Pennsylvania before setting up a research camp to study baboon communication and social behavior in the Okavango Delta in Botswana in 1992. Her family maintained the camp during their sixteen year longitudinal study of one baboon troop and lived there for months at a time each year. Roberts was home schooled while in Botswana and attended The Shipley School in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania while in the United States until her graduation in 2003.
Roberts received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from Harvard College in 2007 and then completed a dual Masters' program at Johns Hopkins University in 2010, receiving a Master of Health Science in Global Disease Epidemiology and Control from the Bloomberg School of Public Health and a Master of Arts in International Development from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. She is currently an author and Senior Consumer Health Analyst at Euromonitor International[2], living with her family in New York.
Wild Life: Dispatches from a Childhood of Baboons and Button-Downs
The memoir follows Roberts, called Keena by her family, from early childhood through young adulthood as she splits time between first Kenya, then Botswana and the United States. At times reminiscent of both Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight and Mean Girls, Roberts' debut novel tells the story of a life that is half spent in the most remote of locations, where nature, adventure, and science create a magical (and sometimes terrifying) place to grow up and half spent in a well-off suburb of a major American city where the social hierarchy is incomprehensible to this wild child of well-respected social psychologists[3].