Lawrence Kent

Lawrence works for a humanitarian foundation based in Seattle combatting poverty and malnutrition in Africa and South Asia. He travels abroad frequently for his job and takes advantage of these trips to look for freshwater fish on the side. He has made fish presentations in 25 cities on three continents, collected fish in 23 countries, mainly in Africa, and published two dozen articles in Tropical Fish Hobbyist, Amazonas, the Cichlid News, the Buntbarsche Bulletin, American Currents, and the German magazines DATZ, AKFS, and BSSW Report . Lawrence currently serves as an editor-at-large for Amazonas magazine and a judge in the North American category of the Biotope Aquarium Design contest. He keeps 30 tanks at home filled with African cichlids, catfish, mormyrids, and tetras, Southeast Asian labyrinths, and self-collected North American native fish.