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Kera Abraham (USA) Fellow
Abraham is the assistant editor at Monterey County Weekly, an independent, alternative newspaper on the Central Coast of California. She has been a full-time staff reporter for alternative weeklies since August 2004, specializing in both short-term news and long-form narrative on environmental topics including forestry, pesticides, eco-sabotage, land use, water supply and the oceans.
Abraham is the assistant editor at Monterey County Weekly, an independent, alternative newspaper on the Central Coast of California. She has been a full-time staff reporter for alternative weeklies since August 2004, specializing in both short-term news and long-form narrative on environmental topics including forestry, pesticides, eco-sabotage, land use, water supply and the oceans.
Her recent honors include a first-place award from the Association of Alternative Newsmedia in 2011 and a first-place award from the Society for Environmental Journalists in 2010. She can be reached via email at kera@mcweekly.com.
Femi Amele (Nigeria) Associate
Amele is a journalist based in Lagos, Nigeria with a background in public health and science journalism. Also a strategic management analyst, from accredited Institute of Strategic Management, Nigeria and served as news anchor and producer at Nnamdi Azikwe University, Radio Station (UNIZIK FM) South East Nigeria. Amele has spoken on the platforms of United Nations Development program (UNDP) and other governmental parastatals, on issues of science advocacy and strategic communication for developing societies such as Nigeria. A recipient of an international volunteer award by GIVE Network and Canadian International Development Agency and a former press coordinator for awarding winning organization, Development Communications Network. Amele is a Member of Nigerian Association of Science Journalists and presently writes for News Science Journalism Online and contributes to the fastest growing news portal in Nigeria, 234next.com as writer, online broadcaster and producer. He may be contacted at: femiamele@live.com.
Mike Anderson (USA) Associate
Anderson had earned several awards for writing and producing advertising campaigns since 1977. Now he’s more interested in writing to help preserve and conserve natural places. Anderson publishes two blogs: CleanUpTheRiver.com and FootprintsAndPhotographs.com. Anderson is a firm believer that the power of writing can be very effective in wilderness preservation. Using his writing and photographs he is sure that if someone is introduced to the charm, character, and beauty of a place, they are less likely to abuse, and more likely to preserve it.
Fitrian Ardiansyah (Indonesia) Fellow
Ardiansyah is a former advisor and program director for climate and energy, WWF-Indonesia. He was one of the experts contributing to the Indonesia Forest Climate Alliance (IFCA) and a member of the Indonesian Official Delegates to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Ardiansyah was also adjunct lecturer at the Post Graduate School of Diplomacy of the Universitas Paramadina and a member of the executive board of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO). He is currently conducting his doctoral research at the Crawford School of Economics and Government, the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra, Australia, with the support from Australian Leadership Award and Allison Sudradjat Award. His recent publication includes: “Risk and resilience in cross-border areas”, in: Lorraine Elliott, Mely Caballero-Anthony (Eds.): Human Security and Climate Change in Southeast Asia (New York: Routledge, 2011). He also regularly writes articles for reputable media in Asia-Pacific, such as the Jakarta Post, the Strait Times, Asia Views, Inside Indonesia and East Asia Forum. For more information please visit his blog. He may be contacted at: fitrian.ardiansyah@anu.edu.au.
Tina Armstrong-Ogbonna (Nigeria) Associate
She is a passionate journalist who started her media career in January 2009 under the tutelage of the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN) training school in Lagos. She has undergone courses in presentation and journalism and has had a brief stint with the Nigeria Television Authority (NTA) and Channels Television in 2009. Armstrong-Ogbonna also worked with Florish Media: a production outfit, as a field reporter and production assistant in packaging of Maritime Documentaries, and as metro reporter with Tentacle News Magazine. Presently, she is a reporter with the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN), working as a correspondent on the Maritime and Environment Beat, and a media officer with an NGO (21st Century) in Lagos. Armstrong-Ogbonna is highly energetic, a part-time aerobics coach, adventurous and fun-loving. Her Hobbies include multi-tasking, traveling and listening to music. She may be reached at tyna4u2me@yahoo.com.
Bob Baron (USA) Founding Fellow
Baron, founder and president of Fulcrum Publishing, is a historian, scientist, and the author or contributor to 25 books. He was program manager for the Mariner II (Venus) and the Mariner IV (Mars) onboard space computers. In 1971, he founded Prime Computer, which became one of the Fortune 500 largest American companies, and was its first president and chief executive officer, building a worldwide business. He is chairman emeritus of The WILD Foundation.
Charlotte Baron (USA) Associate
Chairman of the Board of the WILD Foundation, Baron is a lover of nature, conservation, travel and is an avid birder. She is also a champion of reading and literacy and has served or is serving on various library boards. Baron is also an appreciator of cultural diversity and is a board member or trustee of many local cultural facilities or organizations.
Carolyn Barry (Australia) Fellow
Barry is online editor of Australian Geographic, based in Sydney. Most recently, she has written a feature in the magazine about illegal wildlife trade in Australia. She has a B.Sc/B.Ed from the University of Queensland and an MA in journalism from the University of Colorado, where she lived for three years. She has written for publications such as National Geographic News, Rocky Mountain News, Science News (where she did a stint at the DC-based publication) and Cosmos Magazine (an Australian science mag). She was editor of Australian environment lifestyle publication, G Magazine before moving to Australian Geographic. She has reported on, and occasionally photographed science and nature stories from discovery of new species, to conservation, environment and travel issues. One of her memorable assignments was traveling to Sumatra to catch a glimpse of a few of the only 6000 remaining orangutans in the wild.
Barry is online editor of Australian Geographic, based in Sydney. Most recently, she has written a feature in the magazine about illegal wildlife trade in Australia. She has a B.Sc/B.Ed from the University of Queensland and an MA in journalism from the University of Colorado, where she lived for three years. She has written for publications such as National Geographic News, Rocky Mountain News, Science News (where she did a stint at the DC-based publication) and Cosmos Magazine (an Australian science mag). She was editor of Australian environment lifestyle publication, G Magazine before moving to Australian Geographic. She has reported on, and occasionally photographed science and nature stories from discovery of new species, to conservation, environment and travel issues. One of her memorable assignments was traveling to Sumatra to catch a glimpse of a few of the only 6000 remaining orangutans in the wild.
Carol Ann Bassett (USA) Fellow
Bassett is the author of three works of literary nonfiction: Galápagos at the Crossroads: Pirates, Biologists, Tourists, and Creationists Battle for Darwin’s Cradle of Evolution; A Gathering of Stones: Journeys to the Edges of a Changing World (a finalist for the Oregon Book Award in Creative Nonfiction), and Organ Pipe: Life on the Edge (Desert Places series). Bassett’s essays have been anthologized in the American Nature Writing series. Her collection of poetry, After the Wave, will be out in 2011. Bassett spent 16 years as a full-time freelance writer and was a regular contributor to The New York Times and Time-Life, Inc., and was an independent producer for National Public Radio. Her work has appeared in The Nation, The Los Angeles Times, Mother Jones, Condé Nast Traveler, and dozens of other national publications. Bassett is an Internal Advisory Board member for the UNESCO (USA) Center for Intercultural Dialogue. She teaches environmental writing and literary nonfiction at the University of Oregon. www.carolannbassett.com.
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Juan Bezaury-Creel (Mexico) Fellow
Bezaury is currently TNC's Mexico Country Representative and Latin America Associate Director for External Affairs. Prior to joining the Conservancy, Bezaury had collaborated as World Wildlife Fund's Mexico Program Country Representative and Director, as the Executive Director of Amigos de Sian Ka'an the leading NGO in Mexico's Caribbean coast and as a deputy director with the Mexican Government's agency in charge of protected areas. A native Mexican and architect with a background in urban and regional planning, Bezaury discovered conservation 30 years ago, while working as a national park construction supervisor. Juan is currently a member of the National Protected Area Council, the Monarch Butterfly Fund's Advisory Committee and the Mesoamerican Reef Fund Board of Directors, while also sitting in various Mexican NGO boards and writing about Mexican biodiversity conservation issues.
Rodrigo Martinez de Arredondo Bolio (Mexico) Associate
Martinez de Arredondo, a med-school student, has been concerned since youth about the protection of nature, especially the sea. He recently wrote the book El Secreto de un Gran Descubridor (The Secret of a Great Discoverer), about a man who discovers Atlantis and decides to live in the aquatic world where nature is protected for the survival of all. The man is tired of living above water, where the people do not respect nature and its destruction seems eminent. Martinez de Arredondo is from Merida, Mexico. His major interest is in protecting the cenotes (underground fresh water pools and rivers) and educating people about their importance.
Martinez de Arredondo, a med-school student, has been concerned since youth about the protection of nature, especially the sea. He recently wrote the book El Secreto de un Gran Descubridor (The Secret of a Great Discoverer), about a man who discovers Atlantis and decides to live in the aquatic world where nature is protected for the survival of all. The man is tired of living above water, where the people do not respect nature and its destruction seems eminent. Martinez de Arredondo is from Merida, Mexico. His major interest is in protecting the cenotes (underground fresh water pools and rivers) and educating people about their importance.
Clay Bolt (USA) Fellow
Bolt is an award-winning natural history and conservation photographer whose work has been featured by The Nature Conservancy, Outdoor Photographer, The Telegraph, Outdoor Photography, Digital Photographer and Wildlife in North Carolina Magazine among others. His work has been highly commended in the CIWEM Environmental Photographer of the Year Awards and by the National Wildlife Federation. In 2010, Bolt was a major photographic contributor to the book Conserve A Legacy: Natural Lands & Waters in South Carolina with Southeastern Conservationist Thomas Wyche. He currently sits on the Board of Directors for Discover Life in America and serves as graphics advisor to the Partnership for the Blue Ridge; a group of landowners, conservation organizations and government agencies working to protect the special places of the Southern Blue Ridge Escarpment region of northwestern South Carolina. In 2009, along with iLCP Fellow Niall Benvie, Bolt co-founded the Meet Your Neighbours project (www.meetyourneighbours.org). MYN is an internationally focused environmental photography project, developed to encourage an appreciation of the wildlife within our own communities. It is sponsored by the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland. He is passionate about spreading the message that an appreciation of nature begins at home and he continues to seek out new ways to promote this concept through his photography, writing and community involvement. To learn more please visit his website at www.claybolt.com.
Jon Bowermaster (USA) Fellow
A six-time grantee of the National Geographic Expeditions Council and award-winning writer and filmmaker Bowermaster's recently concluded OCEANS 8 project took him and his teams around the world by sea kayak during the past ten years, on expeditions ranging from the Aleutian Islands to Vietnam, French Polynesia to Chile/Argentina/Bolivia, Gabon to Croatia and Tasmania to Antarctica. Seeing the world from the seat of a sea kayak has given Bowermaster a one-of-a-kind look at both the health of the planet's ocean and the lives of the nearly 3 billion people around the globe who depend on them. Author of eleven books, his most recent are Descending the Dragon about his travels in Vietnam published by National Geographic Books and Wildebeest in a Rainstorm, a collection of profiles of our most intriguing conservationists and explorers and published by Menasha Ridge Press. His companion book to the new Jacques Perrin/DisneyNature film Oceans was published alongside the premiere of the film on Earth Day, April 2010. Bowermaster lives in New York's Hudson Valley. His website and blog, Notes from Sea Level, are at www.jonbowermaster.com.
James Brundige (USA) Associate
Thirty years in music and television have taken Brundige from the nightclubs of New York to the Amazon jungle and slopes of Mt. Everest. After studying film scoring at Berklee College of Music in Boston, he moved to New York. By night he played jazz and Latin music; daytimes were spent in recording studios and edit suites. At the same time Brundige was able to indulge in his love of the outdoors by shooting adventure and science films. Film expeditions included exploratory rafting, mountaineering in Alaska, the Andes and Himalayas, canoeing in the Amazon, and skiing in Antarctica. Brundige has shot and edited for PBS, BBC, NBC, ABC, BBC, Turner, Fox, Discovery, and National Geographic. Since moving to Colorado in 1994, he has focused on environmental documentaries. Most recently Forever Wild: Celebrating America's Wilderness--tells the tales of citizens who have decided what wilderness means to them and have dedicated time and energy in helping to protect these lands they love.
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Michael J. Caduto (USA) Fellow
Caduto pioneered the use of storytelling and the arts for teaching environmental ethics. He has performed at national and international conferences, including storytelling and theater festivals, children's festivals, educational conferences, teacher conventions, conferences on cultural diversity and Native North American traditions, writer's workshops, literacy conventions, natural history festivals and conferences, bookseller conventions and more. He is the author of several books and more than 250 articles which have appeared in newspapers and magazines around the world. In 1984 Caduto founded a service called P.E.A.C.E.® -- Programs for Environmental Awareness and Cultural Exchange. P.E.A.C.E.® promotes understanding, awareness, appreciation and stewardship as the foundation for building a harmonious, sustainable relationship between people and Earth, and among the cultures of the world. Links to selected writing samples: his article in Haaretz, the Middle East’s largest daily newspaper, and a series of syndicated environmental newspaper column. Caduto’s website is at www.p-e-a-c-e.net.
Caduto pioneered the use of storytelling and the arts for teaching environmental ethics. He has performed at national and international conferences, including storytelling and theater festivals, children's festivals, educational conferences, teacher conventions, conferences on cultural diversity and Native North American traditions, writer's workshops, literacy conventions, natural history festivals and conferences, bookseller conventions and more. He is the author of several books and more than 250 articles which have appeared in newspapers and magazines around the world. In 1984 Caduto founded a service called P.E.A.C.E.® -- Programs for Environmental Awareness and Cultural Exchange. P.E.A.C.E.® promotes understanding, awareness, appreciation and stewardship as the foundation for building a harmonious, sustainable relationship between people and Earth, and among the cultures of the world. Links to selected writing samples: his article in Haaretz, the Middle East’s largest daily newspaper, and a series of syndicated environmental newspaper column. Caduto’s website is at www.p-e-a-c-e.net.
Jillian Robinson (2008)
Jeffrey S. Cramer (USA) Fellow
Chad P. Dawson (USA) Academic / Scientific, Founding Fellow
Dawson is professor and former chair of the Department of Forest and Natural Resources Management, College of Environmental Science and Forestry at the State University of New York, USA. He is managing editor of the International Journal of Wilderness and co-author of Wilderness Management, 4th edition. Dawson is also a member of The WILD Foundation board of directors.
Dawson is professor and former chair of the Department of Forest and Natural Resources Management, College of Environmental Science and Forestry at the State University of New York, USA. He is managing editor of the International Journal of Wilderness and co-author of Wilderness Management, 4th edition. Dawson is also a member of The WILD Foundation board of directors.
Daud Abdi Daud Dhmbil (Somalia) Fellow
Dhmbil is an active, prominent Somali journalist. Since 2000 he has worked with many different radio stations and newspapers throughout the country. Dhmbil was instrumental in the creation of the Somali Coalition for Freedom of Expression (SOCFEX) and was a Press Freedom Activist from 2007 to 2010 at The Somali Journalist Rights Agency (SOJRA) as well as Science, Health, Agriculture and Environmental Reporter at the National Association of Somali Science and Environmental Journalists (NASSEJ) now known as Somali Media for Environment, Science, Health and Agriculture (SOMESHA). Dhmbil is the Secretary General of the African Federation of Environmental Journalists (AFEJ) and the Somali Media for Environment, Science, Health and Agriculture (SOMESHA). He is currently a member of the International Federation of Environmental Journalists (IFEJ), the Network of Climate Journalists in the Greater Horn of Africa (NECJOGHA), Arab Science Journalists Association (ASJA), Climate Change Media Partnership, Biodiversity Media Alliance, as well as an Associate Member of the Foreign Correspondents Association of East Africa. Dhmbil is also a correspondent for New Science Journalism Magazine http://newsciencejournalism.net/ and can be reached at daauud27@yahoo.com.
Ana Dominguez (USA) Founding Fellow
Dominguez has a BA in international relations, with a special focus on foreign economy and the environment, from the Universidad Iberoamericana. Her passion regarding all environmental-related topics began with an internship at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Mexico (Secretaria de Relaciones Exteriores) and for two years was part of the Dirección General de Desarrollo Humano, Social y Sustentable of the Proyecto Mesoamérica at the Subsecretaria para América Latina y el Caribe. Dominguez is an official voluntary spokesperson regarding Climate Change since her training in 2009. She was also involved with WILD 9 and oversaw several special projects i.e. the Wilderness Stamp Series, and the full-size rubber elephant Nombkhubulwane to name a few. Currently she is content manager for www.climatedeal.org, and also writes a blog in Spanish, www.tierrasilvestre.org/, concerning environmental issues. Dominquez is the new manager of the corporate commitment to wilderness (CCW) for The WILD Foundation.
Gretel Ehrlich (USA) Founding Fellow
Ehrlich was born on a horse ranch in California and was educated at Bennington College and UCLA film school. She began writing fulltime in 1978 after the death of a loved one. Her book The Solace of Open Spaces, was praised by Annie Dillard saying: “Wyoming has found its Whitman.” Ehrlich has written several books including Heart Mountain; Islands, the Universe, and Home; Yellowstone: Land of Fire and Ice; and John Muir, Nature’s Visionary as well as essays, short stories, and poems. Her work has appeared in Harper’s, the Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, Time Magazine, Life, National Geographic Adventure, National Geographic Traveler, Outside, and Audubon, among others. She has won many awards for her writing including the National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, a Whiting Foundation Award, A Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Harold B Vurcell Award at the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Tyler Finley (Canada) Academic
Finley is a professional writer focused on developing environmental education materials for youth; encouraging young people to develop an active interest in biodiversity and issues pertaining to biodiversity loss, from climate change to habitat degradation. He has also researched and written about conservation issues for the Robert Bateman Get to Know Program, raising awareness about conservation issues and allowing youth to take part in hands-on learning about wildlife in Canada. Finley organized a major environmental conference (June 2010) and a coast-to-coast BioBlitz campaign. The BioBlitz provided tens of thousands of youth with vital opportunities to develop their understanding of biodiversity, working side-by-side with conservation experts from Parks Canada, Nature Canada, and other organizations. In addition, his work also addresses sustainability and new techniques for reducing the impact of the wine industry on wildlife and local ecology. Finley assisted in the creation of a UBC report to improve planting and harvesting techniques in the British Columbia wine industry (ultimately applicable to vineyards across the world).
Dave Foreman (USA) Founding Fellow
Foreman was raised and trained in a very conservative family. He started working in the environmental field, first with the Wilderness Society and then with the Nature Conservancy. In 1980, convinced that current environmental organizations were not doing enough, he cofounded the radical environmental movement Earth First. He is now executive director of The Rewilding Institute. Among his writings, Foreman is the author of The Lobo Outback Funeral Home, a novel; Confessions of an Eco-Warrior, a collection of essays; and Rewilding North America: A Vision for Conservation in the 21st Century. He also co-authored The Big Outside with Howie Wolke.
Jim Fowler, one of the world’s best known naturalists, has presented information about wildlife and wilderness to the American public on television for more than 40 years. He first served with Marlin Perkins as co-host and later became host of Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom, and also hosted Mutual of Omaha’s Spirit of Adventure. Those programs received many awards including four Emmys and an endorsement by the National PTA for family viewing. In addition to ongoing appearances on many network talk shows, Fowler was the wildlife correspondent for NBC’s Today Show since 1988 and he was a regular on the Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. Jim Fowler is actively involved in a nationwide conservation education program conducted at the local community level. This includes personal appearances in numerous cities each year to share conservation related messages. Jim Fowler is president of the Fowler Center for Wildlife Education in New York and serves as the honorary president of the Explorers Club. In 1994, he received the prestigious Explorers Club Medal, the club's highest honor. Fowler also sits on the boards of Friends of Conservation, Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund and Global Communications for Conservation (GCC).
Jeff Gailus (USA) Fellow
Gailus has been writing about science, nature and the people and politics that will determine the fate of planet earth. He has a Masters in Science in Environmental Studies and has taught writing at the University of Oregon and the University of Montana. An award-winning writer from Calgary, Alberta, he is the author of The Grizzly Manifesto (Rocky Mountain Books 2010) and numerous magazine articles. His latest book, Little Black Lies, will be published by Rocky Mountain Books in October 2011. Jeff's writing has been featured in a variety of Canadian and international magazines and newspapers including Alberta Views, Alberta Venture, The Calgary Herald, Canadian Geographic, Explore, The Globe and Mail, Hooked on the Outdoors, and Western Living. Gailus has also worked with non-profit organizations including the Alberta Ecotrust Foundation, David Suzuki Foundation, Defenders of Wildlife, Natural Resources Defense Council, TELUS World of Science-Calgary, Wild Rockies Field Institute, and the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative. He has also received the Associated Collegiate Press Award, the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, and a Doris Duke Conservation Fellowship. He currently lives in Missoula, Montana and spends a significant amount of time in the mountains and foothills of Alberta.
Gailus has been writing about science, nature and the people and politics that will determine the fate of planet earth. He has a Masters in Science in Environmental Studies and has taught writing at the University of Oregon and the University of Montana. An award-winning writer from Calgary, Alberta, he is the author of The Grizzly Manifesto (Rocky Mountain Books 2010) and numerous magazine articles. His latest book, Little Black Lies, will be published by Rocky Mountain Books in October 2011. Jeff's writing has been featured in a variety of Canadian and international magazines and newspapers including Alberta Views, Alberta Venture, The Calgary Herald, Canadian Geographic, Explore, The Globe and Mail, Hooked on the Outdoors, and Western Living. Gailus has also worked with non-profit organizations including the Alberta Ecotrust Foundation, David Suzuki Foundation, Defenders of Wildlife, Natural Resources Defense Council, TELUS World of Science-Calgary, Wild Rockies Field Institute, and the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative. He has also received the Associated Collegiate Press Award, the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, and a Doris Duke Conservation Fellowship. He currently lives in Missoula, Montana and spends a significant amount of time in the mountains and foothills of Alberta.
Carlos Galindo-Leal (México) Fellow
During grad studies in Ecology at the University of British Columbia, Canada Galindo-Leal slowly evolved from writing scientific articles to writing for the general public. He's written several books including Of two worlds: The frogs toads and salamanders of the Yucatan Peninsula, a bilingual book chosen as recommended reading by the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC). And coauthored Danaids, the wonderful Monarch butterflies (available in Spanish also) and The white-tailed deer of the Western Sierra Madre, ecology, management and conservation (only in Spanish), and coedited The Status of the Atlantic Forest Hotspot: The Dynamics of Biodiversity Loss, and Mexico´s natural heritage: 100 hundred success stories. Recently he participated with the texts on two coffee-table books on Jaguars: Panthera onca and Jaguar. For the last couple of years, Galindo-Leal has written the monthly section Mexicans by nature for the magazine Mexicanisimo, and has been working as Scientific Communication Director of the National Commission on the Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity (CONABIO). Their website Biodiversidad Mexicana www.biodiversidad.gob.mx was recently presented with an award for its contents by QUO + Discovery Channel. Galindo-Leal is part of the advisory committee of National Geographic en Español and writes short articles for the magazine.
Carole Gallagher (USA) Fellow
Gallagher first began her odyssey on the nuclear trail on March 28, 1979, the day of the Three Mile Island accident. Noting beads of sweat on the brow of Walter Cronkite as he reported on it, she packed her car, ready to travel far from the potential plume that could soon have enveloped her home town, New York City. Shortly after that, she began research on the effects of atmospheric nuclear tests in Nevada, which had been an interest since childhood "duck and cover" maneuvers at her grammar school in the 1950s. Wondering what really happened to people downwind of the Nevada Test Site, she began research at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York with a library pass supplied by a doctor who taught there. Recently declassified documents from the Atomic Energy Commission revealed that federal authorities considered those people "a low-use segment of the population," much the same as test site workers and atomic veterans exposed at close range to nuclear bombs as they detonated in the open air. Abandoning her life as a successful photographer and writer, she moved from downtown Manhattan to southern Utah, a spot considered most damaged by fallout, to observe and document what she called "American Ground Zero." After a dozen years on the road, based in Utah, American Ground Zero: The Secret Nuclear War was published by The MIT Press. A slightly abridged paperback edition was published by Random House the next year, thanks to Harold Evans, “as a personal act of conscience.” There was a companion traveling exhibition of this documentary organized by the International Center of Photography in New York with seven venues nationally and numerous others abroad. Gallagher has been working on book projects concerning the environmental destructiveness of war in the Persian Gulf (1991), another on nuclear testing in the West, and monographs on similar issues connecting health with environmental pollution. She maintains a website (www.CaroleGallagher.info/index.htm) and writes occasional pieces for her blog, (http://americangroundzero.blogspot.com/) and can be reached on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/carole.gallagher/ )
Gallagher first began her odyssey on the nuclear trail on March 28, 1979, the day of the Three Mile Island accident. Noting beads of sweat on the brow of Walter Cronkite as he reported on it, she packed her car, ready to travel far from the potential plume that could soon have enveloped her home town, New York City. Shortly after that, she began research on the effects of atmospheric nuclear tests in Nevada, which had been an interest since childhood "duck and cover" maneuvers at her grammar school in the 1950s. Wondering what really happened to people downwind of the Nevada Test Site, she began research at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York with a library pass supplied by a doctor who taught there. Recently declassified documents from the Atomic Energy Commission revealed that federal authorities considered those people "a low-use segment of the population," much the same as test site workers and atomic veterans exposed at close range to nuclear bombs as they detonated in the open air. Abandoning her life as a successful photographer and writer, she moved from downtown Manhattan to southern Utah, a spot considered most damaged by fallout, to observe and document what she called "American Ground Zero." After a dozen years on the road, based in Utah, American Ground Zero: The Secret Nuclear War was published by The MIT Press. A slightly abridged paperback edition was published by Random House the next year, thanks to Harold Evans, “as a personal act of conscience.” There was a companion traveling exhibition of this documentary organized by the International Center of Photography in New York with seven venues nationally and numerous others abroad. Gallagher has been working on book projects concerning the environmental destructiveness of war in the Persian Gulf (1991), another on nuclear testing in the West, and monographs on similar issues connecting health with environmental pollution. She maintains a website (www.CaroleGallagher.info/index.htm) and writes occasional pieces for her blog, (http://americangroundzero.blogspot.com/) and can be reached on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/carole.gallagher/ )
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Jay Griffiths (UK) Fellow
Griffiths is the author of Wild: An Elemental Journey, winner of the inaugural Orion book award, winner of the Barnes and Noble Discover award for best work of non-fiction by a new author in the States, shortlisted for the Orwell prize and the World Book Day award. Her work as been given endorsements by Barry Lopez, Gary Snyder, John Berger, Bill McKibben and others. For more information please see: www.jaygriffiths.com.
Griffiths is the author of Wild: An Elemental Journey, winner of the inaugural Orion book award, winner of the Barnes and Noble Discover award for best work of non-fiction by a new author in the States, shortlisted for the Orwell prize and the World Book Day award. Her work as been given endorsements by Barry Lopez, Gary Snyder, John Berger, Bill McKibben and others. For more information please see: www.jaygriffiths.com.
Amy Gulick (USA) Founding Fellow
Has been a regular contributor to magazines such as Sierra, Audubon, High Country News, and E Magazine since 1993. She also contributes on a regular to the Eco-Seas department of Dive Training magazine, covering various topics including plastics in the oceans; the effects of the aquarium trade on coral reefs; the decline in the Southern Resident orca population; illegal wildlife trafficking; and commercial whaling. And is also a columnist for Currents magazine’s conservation department. Along with her writing Amy is also a national speaker on several conservation topics including Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the Tongass National Forest, and general wildlife topics. Her book Salmon in the Trees: Life in Alaska’s Tongass Rain Forest, was released in April 2010.
Kat Haber (USA) Associate
Haber's grandfathers taught her to respect the Earth. She has created award-winning gardens, innovative programs (Betty Ford Alpine Gardens in Vale, Colorado USA and the Center for Alaskan Coastal Studies in Homer, Alaska USA), has taken risks (freestyle aerialist and hot air ballooning) pioneered new paths (one of the first women attending the US Air Force Academy), and dug deep within via paths that characterize the soul serenity found in wild places. Haber brought young leaders to WILD 9 (the 9th World Wilderness Congress in Merida, Mexico, 2009) that infused a sense of urgency, lightheartedness, and idealism to save at least half of the Earth's wild places.
Kate Harris (Canada) Associate
Harris is a young wilderness conservationist, writer, adventurer, and photographer who has explored and written about some of the harshest places on all seven continents, with a focus on life at high latitudes and high altitudes. Harris studied biology and geology as an undergraduate Morehead Scholar at the University of North Carolina. Then attended the University of Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship, writing her Master's thesis on transboundary conservation and conflict resolution, with a focus on the Siachen glacier dispute. Earning a second Master's degree in earth and planetary sciences at MIT. Now a freelance writer, with feature articles published in The Explorers Journal, Wend magazine, and Outpost magazine, among other publications. Harris is also an environmental and biodiversity reporter for the Earth Negotiations Bulletin, published by the International Institute for Sustainable Development. She’s a member of the IUCN-WCPA as well as the IUCN Transboundary Conservation Specialist Group. Read about her field research expedition along the Silk Road...by bike at www.cyclingsilk.com.
Laura Hartstone (USA) Fellow
Hartstone enjoys covering stories that captivate the spirit of conservation. She currently lives in Tanzania and writes for organizations including the East Africa Wildlife Society (SWARA magazine), Frankfurt Zoological Society (blogs and magazine articles), and several other local publications. She is the Founder of the Peaks Foundation www.peaksfoundation.org, an initiative to raise funds for organizations around the world by engaging women in adventure challenges. She is the simultaneously completing a Masters Degree in Wildlife, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Health with the University of Edinburgh. http://laurahartstone.wordpress.com
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Linda Hasselstrom (USA) Founding Fellow
Born in Texas, Linda Hasselstrom moved to South Dakota when she was four. She is a rancher, a writer, a teacher, and an environmentalist. Hasselstrom has written for newspapers, founded a magazine, and edited anthologies of the writings of other women. Her poetry and her essays have been widely praised and won her many awards, including the South Dakota Author of the Year award, National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in poetry, and a South Dakota Arts Council literature fellowship. In 1990, she became the first woman to win a Western American Writer award from Augustana College in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. She conducts writing retreats at her ranch home, Windbreak House, in western South Dakota. http://www.windbreakhouse.com/
Morgan Heim (USA) Fellow
Heim is a Colorado-based multimedia journalist, holding both a B.S. in zoology and M.A. in environmental journalism. Many of her stories focus on the uncommon nature of the human/wildlife connection from prairie dogs living in Denver’s ditches to border agents restoring wetlands as a way to fight crime. She has worked with Smithsonian magazine, High Country News, the Nature Conservancy magazine, OnEarth.org, Art for Conservation and the National Wildlife Federation. Along with freelancing, she writes for the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), where she translates the language of science into stories for the lay-person. Because there are too many stories that need telling, Heim also runs the increasingly popular blog The Nature Files, http://naturefiles.wordpress.com, sharing stories of ecological discovery and environmental issues. Heim spoke about blogging with a purpose at the WILD9 Writers Seminar in Merida, Mexico.
John C. Hendee (USA) Fellow
Former Dean of the University of Idaho, College of Natural Resources (1985-94) and Director of the University’s Wilderness Research Center (1995-2002) in Moscow, Idaho, USA, Hendee taught and lead research on the use of wilderness for personal growth and wilderness therapy. Hendee is senior co-author of the textbook Wilderness Management (3 editions), and founding managing editor (1995) and now editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Wilderness. Now retired in Sausalito, California, John consults, oversees the Hendee Tree Farm in northern Michigan, and assists his wife, Marilyn Riley, in leading wilderness programs with their non-profit educational organization, Wilderness Transitions.
Heidi Hutner (USA) Academic
Hutner is Associate professor of English and a Women's Studies Affiliate, at Stony Brook University. She writes and teaches about ecofeminism, environmental justice, and ecocriticism in literature and film. Currently, Hutner is working on two books: What is Ecofeminism? A Maternal Reframing of the Environment (Demeter Press, 2012), and Strawberry Fields NOT: An Environmental Cancer Memoir. Hutner is the author of numerous articles on ecofeminism, feminism, and women writers, and her books include Colonial Women: Race and Restoration Drama (Oxford UP, 2001), and the collection Rereading Aphra Behn: History, Theory, Criticism (University of Virginia, 1993). She recently co-edited and wrote the introduction for Frances Sheridan's eighteenth-century novel, The Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph (Broadview Press, 2011). Hutner also writes creative environmental narratives and poetry. See her ecofeminist, cancer, and mothering blog: ecofeminism-mothering.blogspot.com.
Mark Jordahl (USA) Associate
Jordahl is currently living in Uganda and is an educator, naturalist, writer, and consultant on wildlife conservation and tourism in Uganda. He has a masters degree in Conservation Education and is focusing on conservation-related writing which includes his blog http://conserveuganda.wordpress.com, and a guidebook for Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda’s largest.
Ted R. Kahn (USA) Academic / Scientific
Kahn is the founder and Executive Director of Neotropical Conservation Foundation, where he designs conservation strategies for near extinct amphibians. The approach taken includes biodiversity corridors, climate science, natural history and ecology with community education and direct involvement, among others. He works in the field in Mesoamerica and South America in order to implement these strategies. Kahn has been a scientific advisor to most US Federal agencies concerned with wildlife and wilderness (USF&WS, NPS, NFS, NWR, BLM and the DOI) and many regional, state, and conservation oriented foundations throughout the western hemisphere. He is a scientific advisor to the Global Amphibian Assessment/IUCN Red List of Threatened Amphibians, which he helped design in 1997. He is also the Senior Research Scientist for the Latin American & Caribbean Social Science Research Network. Kahn is widely published as an author, editor, reviewer, photographer, as well as a scientific illustrator. Kahn’s illustrations are on permanent display at the Smithsonian Institution. Additionally, his works and writings can be found in texts, guidebooks, and peer reviewed journals from 1986 onward.
K.Linda Kivi (Canada) Fellow
Kivi’s work reflects her passion for the Inland Temperate Rainforest, the Columbia Mountains, connection to the natural world, indigenous peoples, women, wilderness conservation, sexuality, love and change. She is the author of three works of literary non-fiction including co-author of The Inner Green: Exploring Home in the Columbia Mountains (with E.D. Pearkes) and is the editor of the anthology The Purcell Suite: Upholding the Wild. The latter has raised both funds and awareness for the Jumbo Wild! campaign (http://www.qatmuk.com/). As a peasant interested in re-wilding herself, Kivi gardens, wildcrafts, wanders and practices living cooperatively, consciously and simply. Currently, her blog with author Luanne Armstrong explores people’s relationship to place, especially wild and rural places (http://maapress.blogspot.com/). She is also a journalist, a poet, a bookbinder and publisher, a radio host, and the author of two novels that explore the impact of displacement through the refugee experience. She inhabits the Maa Land Co-operative in the Bird Creek watershed in Sinixt Territory in the Columbia Mountains. To contact Kivi: www.maapress.ca.
Kivi’s work reflects her passion for the Inland Temperate Rainforest, the Columbia Mountains, connection to the natural world, indigenous peoples, women, wilderness conservation, sexuality, love and change. She is the author of three works of literary non-fiction including co-author of The Inner Green: Exploring Home in the Columbia Mountains (with E.D. Pearkes) and is the editor of the anthology The Purcell Suite: Upholding the Wild. The latter has raised both funds and awareness for the Jumbo Wild! campaign (http://www.qatmuk.com/). As a peasant interested in re-wilding herself, Kivi gardens, wildcrafts, wanders and practices living cooperatively, consciously and simply. Currently, her blog with author Luanne Armstrong explores people’s relationship to place, especially wild and rural places (http://maapress.blogspot.com/). She is also a journalist, a poet, a bookbinder and publisher, a radio host, and the author of two novels that explore the impact of displacement through the refugee experience. She inhabits the Maa Land Co-operative in the Bird Creek watershed in Sinixt Territory in the Columbia Mountains. To contact Kivi: www.maapress.ca.
Cyril Kormos (USA) Academic / Scientific, Founding Fellow
Kormos is the vice president for policy at The WILD Foundation www.wild.org. He is primarily focused on assembling the most up to date information and tools for wilderness conservation and climate change issues. He is also a member of, and helps manage the IUCN-WCPA Wilderness Task Force, and was appointed the IUCN-WCPA Regional Vice-Chair for North American and the Caribbean. Kormos has edited and co-edited many books, including A Handbook for International Wilderness Law and Policy. Prior to coming to The WILD Foundation, Kormos worked for Conservation International as senior director for program management, staff attorney, and director of CI’s policy program.
Carolyn Kremers (USA) Founding Fellow
Kremers writes literary nonfiction and poetry. Numerous essays and poems of hers have been published in anthologies, magazines, journals, on public radio, and on the Internet. She largely writes about Alaska, the Inland Northwest, Russia, the natural world, conservation and development, indigenous peoples, women, education, music, wonder, and change. Kremers is the author of Place of the Pretend People: Gifts from a Yup’ik Eskimo Village (literary nonfiction) and The Alaska Reader: Voices from the North (anthology of fiction, literary nonfiction, poetry, and oral tradition; co-edited with Anne Hanley). Two other nonfiction books are in-progress: Then Came the Mustang (essays set in Alaska and the Inland Northwest) and Blessings from Buryatia (a book-length nonfiction narrative about the people and republic of Buryatia, Russia). Her poetry book Upriver is complete, and a second book of poetry is in-progress. To contact Kremers: cskremers@alaska.edu.
Stephen Leahy (Canada) Fellow
Leahy been an independent journalist specializing in science and environment for the past 16 years and has been published in dozens of publications around the world including New Scientist, The London Sunday Times, Maclean’s Magazine, Earth Island Journal, The Toronto Star, Wired News, Audubon, BBC Wildlife, and Canadian Geographic. He is currently the international science and environment correspondent for the Rome-headquartered Inter Press Service News Agency (IPS), the world’s 6th largest global news agency.Leahy's IPS articles are published in over 500 newspapers and magazines all over the world reaching an estimated 200 million readers in up to 20 languages. IPS news is also broadcast by over 1000 radio stations, potentially targeting over 150 million listeners. He is a professional member of the International Federation of Journalists; Society of Environmental Journalists; Canadian Freelance Union; Media & Democracy Group (media training for democracy). leahy.steve@gmail.com, http://stephenleahy.wordpress.com.
Kahindi Lekalhaile (Kenya) Fellow
Lekalhaile began nature writing in 1995 through a column in the Sunday Nation newspaper, which published 32 of his stories until 1998. Since the 2000s Lekalhaile's articles have been published in Kenya Birds (an ornithological magazine of Nature Kenya) and What On (a monthly tourist digest in Kenya). Lekahaile aspires to publish a book of nature writings based on his conservation work and life as a Samburu herdsman in the wilderness of Northern Kenya.
Photo by Honey Lindburg
Patty Limerick (USA) Fellow
Dr. Limerick is the faculty director and chair of the Board of the Center of the American West at the University of Colorado, where she is also a professor of history. Limerick has dedicated her career to bridging the gap between academics and the general public and to demonstrating the benefits of applying historical perspective to contemporary dilemmas and conflicts. Limerick has received a number of awards and honors recognizing the impact of her scholarship and her commitment to teaching including the MacArthur Fellowship and the Hazel Barnes Prize, CU's highest award for teaching and research. She has served as president of several professional organizations, advised documentary and film projects, and done two tours as a Pulitzer Nonfiction jurist. She is currently serving as the vice president for the Teaching Division of the American Historical Association. Limerick regularly engages the public on the op-ed pages of local and national newspapers, and in the summer of 2005 she served as a guest columnist for The New York Times. She may be reached at pnl@centerwest.org.
David Lindo (UK) Fellow
David Lindo is The Urban Birder--broadcaster and writer. Previously Head of Membership at the British Trust for Ornithology, Lindo is the author of many articles on urban birds and writes for various websites and magazines including the RSPB’s membership magazine--Birds, Bird Watching Magazine--Britain’s best selling birding publication and the award winning BBC Wildlife Magazine. His new book, The Urban Birder, has just been published. He is currently a patron of Alderney Wildlife Trust, Birding For All and the Spitalfields City Farm. He is also the Founder of the Tower 42 Bird Study Group, co-founder of the Canary Wharf Migrant Bird Project and is on the committee of The Friends Of Wormwood Scrubs. Email: theurbanbirder@theurbanbirder.com, website: http://www.theurbanbirder.com.
David Lindo is The Urban Birder--broadcaster and writer. Previously Head of Membership at the British Trust for Ornithology, Lindo is the author of many articles on urban birds and writes for various websites and magazines including the RSPB’s membership magazine--Birds, Bird Watching Magazine--Britain’s best selling birding publication and the award winning BBC Wildlife Magazine. His new book, The Urban Birder, has just been published. He is currently a patron of Alderney Wildlife Trust, Birding For All and the Spitalfields City Farm. He is also the Founder of the Tower 42 Bird Study Group, co-founder of the Canary Wharf Migrant Bird Project and is on the committee of The Friends Of Wormwood Scrubs. Email: theurbanbirder@theurbanbirder.com, website: http://www.theurbanbirder.com.
Les Line (USA) Founding Fellow (deceased)
Line was the longest-serving editor of Audubon magazine from 1966 to 1991, and is credited for evolving the publication into “...the most beautiful magazine in the world...” (New York Times). Line had written, edited or photographed more than 30 books on nature and conservation. His honors included a doctorate in literature from Bucknell University and being named a fellow of the Rhode Island School of Design. He was accorded the Jade of Chiefs Award from the Outdoor Writers Association of America; the Hal Borland Award from the Audubon Society; and was named one of 100 heroes of the American conservation movement during the 20th century.
Harvey Locke (Canada) Founding Fellow
Locke is globally known for his work on wilderness, national parks and large landscape conservation from Yellowstone to Yukon and beyond. Named by Time magazine as one of Canada’s leaders for the 21st century, his resume is filled with premier publications, keynote speaking engagements and leadership and advisory roles for some of the most well known organizations in the conservation field. He is now playing a leadership role in a global endeavor to unit efforts to mitigate and adapt to climate change with nature. A passionate advocate for wild nature, Locke joined The WILD Foundation (www.wild.org) in January, 2009 as vice president for conservation strategy. He is also senior adviser for conservation to the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, and strategic advisor to the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative.
Thomas Locker (USA) Founding Fellow Locker has spent his entire life in service to his two great passions: painting and nature. Since the opening of his first one-man show in 1964 in New York City, Locker has held more than sixty such exhibitions. He has illustrated more than thirty books, many of which he has written. His books include Sky Tree, Walking with Henry, John Muir: America’s Naturalist, Rachel Carson: Preserving a Sense of Wonder, Hudson: The Story of a River, and Journey to the Mountaintop: On Living and Meaning. Locker’s books have received many awards, include the John Burroughs Award, the Christopher Award, the Knickerbocker Lifetime Achievement Award, the NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Book for Children, the NCTE Notable Trade Books in the Language Arts, the Council of Christian Schools Awards, and The New York Times Award for best illustration. He makes his home in a small village at the edge of the Hudson River.
Neil Losin (USA) Associate
Losin has been interested in nature his whole life, and an avid birder since childhood. An internationally known, award-winning photographer, Losin also has written for nature and science related magazines and books. A Ph.D. candidate in UCLA's department of ecology and evolutionary biology, Losin strongly believes in using writing and photography to engage the public in scientific and environmental issues.
Fred MacVaugh (USA) Fellow
MacVaugh for the longest time struggled to understand why he cared. He grew up in the Philadelphia suburbs in the 1970s and 1980s, and like many kids his age, he spent a lot of time running around the backyard, climbing trees, and playing with his dog, a golden retriever named Tahoe. None of this, though, satisfactorily explained his later irrepressible urge to do something to conserve land and nature. Only in the last few years has he realized why he cares: he got his hands dirty and watched while things grew, thrived, and died. His mother and grandparents fed the birds, rabbits, and squirrels in the yard. They also kept a flower and vegetable garden and insisted Fred help. He hated tilling, planting, weeding, and harvesting. He’d have rather watched television. Now he struggles to find fruitful ways to combine his indivisible passions for writing, reading, history, literature, and nature with teaching and conservation. Before beginning an MFA in creative writing and environment at Iowa State University, Fred earned an MA in English as well as an MA and a BA in history. In addition, Fred’s worked for the National Park Service (NPS) for seven years; taught college-level English and history; and worked as a newspaper reporter and obituary writer, writing tutor, grocery clerk, and editorial assistant at the University of Nebraska Press. His publications include numerous newspaper and magazine articles in the El Paso Times, Daily Local News, Des Moines Register, and Southern New Mexico Magazine; scholarly reviews in New Mexico Historical Review, Password, and Southwestern Historical Quarterly; and poetry in Plains Song Review and Watershed. He’s also written an (unpublished) history of Carlsbad Caverns National Park, Preserving the Underground: The Creation of Carlsbad Caverns National Park, 1922–1930. Current projects include a book-length collection of lyric and narrative poetry and a memoir/environmental history that explores not only his affinity for place but also the history of America’s national parks and how to combine creative writing and science instruction to strengthen and promote environmental awareness and behavior change.
M. Madasamy (India) Fellow
Mr. Madasamy (B. Sc. Chemistry) works as a postal assistant near Thekkady, an international tourist destination in India. A member of the International Peace Bureau (Switzerland) and Control Arms Foundation in India (working for a world without war) he is a peace and nature activist. Madasamy has written many articles for the daily newspaper, Deepika, on the environment. He was nominated for the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP’s) green star award in 2011 and has presented many papers on the environment and world peace at several universities. Born in Kerala, India, Madasamy is married and has two children. He may be reached at: madasamy74@gmail.com or by phone: +919946090356, and +919947246109.
Marie-Eve Marchand (Canada) Associate
Marchand is a former executive director of Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS), Quebec chapter, and helped develop the idea of "wilderness" in French known as Nature sauvage. Marchand also played a key role in Quebec's government commitment to protect at least half of Northern Quebec. She was given the Golden Leaf Award from the Canadian Council on Ecological Integrity for the work she led on the Dumoine Watershed. Marchand is currently working to bring the plains bison back to Banff National Park in Canada and with The WILD Foundation in their Nature Needs Half campaign (preserving half of the world for nature).
Daniel Markham (USA) Fellow
Markham is a journalist, multimedia producer and editor. He has worked as writer and editor for United Press International (London), was a news writer and editor for ABC News where he was the founding producer and editor of Earthfile, an internationally syndicated environmental magazine program. As director of communications at the Environmental Communications Centre Markham worked with clients such as Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, Earthwatch, the National Park Service, and the National Science Foundation (Antarctic program), among others. He has also been a writer, editor and producer of environmental topics for many newspapers in the US. Markham also enjoys being an interpreter at the Biltmore Estate/Historic Farm Village leading demonstrations and tours for adults and school groups in Asheville, North Carolina.
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Amy Marquis (USA) Fellow
Marquis is founder and editor of The Digital Naturalist (TDN), is also a writer and editor on the award-winning National Parks magazine www.npca.org/magazine, which reaches more than 325,000 members of the National Park Conservation Association www.npca.org. Her love for visual storytelling first bloomed in 2000 as a photo editor on National Wildlife magazine--but it was her passion for music that recently led her to start pushing stories off the printed page. After researching scores of advocacy videos on the internet, she realized she was just one of many trying to understand this new medium. So she created TDN to share her findings and create an open forum where everyone can continue to learn. Amy lives in Boulder, Colorado, USA, and also serves as an affiliate with the International League of Conservation Photographers http://ilcp.com and a freelance multimedia editor for The WILD Foundation www.wild.org. Her essay about her experiences in Big Bend National Park in Texas was published in the book The National Parks: Our American Landscape by photographer Ian Shive. Marquis may be reached at amarquis@npca.org.
Vance G. Martin (USA) Founding Fellow
Martin is president of The WILD Froundation. An innovative leader known for bridging the interests of people and nature, he has lived extensively overseas, worked in over 45 countries, and helped to establish many non-profits. He has served on the boards of numerous organizations such as the Cheetah Conservation Fund, Friends of Peace Parks, Conservation & Preservation Charities of America, Fulcrum Publishing, Wilderness Foundation (South Africa), Wilderness Foundation (UK), and others. He is also the founder and current co-chairman of the IUCN Wilderness Task Force and has edited and authored many publications, including most recently: Wilderness (with Patricio Robles Gil, the renowned Mexican conservation photographer); Wilderness, Wildlands and People: A Partnership for the Planet, the plenary proceedings from the 8th World Wilderness Congress (Anchorage, Alaska, 2005). A native of the U.S. Piedmont region, he graduated magna cum laude from West Virginia University.
Martin is president of The WILD Froundation. An innovative leader known for bridging the interests of people and nature, he has lived extensively overseas, worked in over 45 countries, and helped to establish many non-profits. He has served on the boards of numerous organizations such as the Cheetah Conservation Fund, Friends of Peace Parks, Conservation & Preservation Charities of America, Fulcrum Publishing, Wilderness Foundation (South Africa), Wilderness Foundation (UK), and others. He is also the founder and current co-chairman of the IUCN Wilderness Task Force and has edited and authored many publications, including most recently: Wilderness (with Patricio Robles Gil, the renowned Mexican conservation photographer); Wilderness, Wildlands and People: A Partnership for the Planet, the plenary proceedings from the 8th World Wilderness Congress (Anchorage, Alaska, 2005). A native of the U.S. Piedmont region, he graduated magna cum laude from West Virginia University.
Michael McBride (USA) Associate
Michael has been writing conservation articles for over 30 years, starting in 1978 with The Alaska Fishing and Hunting magazine, and most recently with an article in the International Journal of Wilderness. He was a panel member of nature and conservation writers at the WILD9 in Merida, Mexico in 2009. Michael has lectured internationally on wilderness topics and has appeared on PBS radio, CNBC, and was interviewed in the New York Times. Currently he is working on a book about Alaska’s wild coast. http:alaskawildernesslodge.com/vision.htm
Ian McCallum (South Africa) Founding Fellow
McCallum is a medical doctor, Jungian psychologist, wilderness guide, founder of the Wilderness Leadership School in the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, and director of the Wilderness Foundation Africa. He is the author of Thorns to Kilimanjaro, Ecological Intelligence: Rediscovering Ourselves in Nature, and a poetry collection, Wild Gifts. In the 1970s he played fullback for Springbok, South Africa’s national union rugby team. McCallum currently lives in Cape Town with his wife, Sharon. McCallum is also involved with "UNTAMED" a collaborative project that explores the lost balance between humankind and nature. http://www.untamedexhibition.co.za/
Photo © Berny Meyer
Till Meyer (Germany) Founding Fellow
Meyer was born in Bayreuth, Germany, and is a resident to Bavarian capital of Munich. For most of his career Meyer wrote for special interest magazines about nature, wildlife and hunting. Ever since 1997 he gave special attention to wilderness matters. One of his more widely recognized wilderness projects was an initiative that put the Bavarian State Ballet into the Wilderness of the Bavarian National Parks. This initiative resulted in different dance performances and also a movie, which Meyer directed. He has also produced and directed an educational movie about conservation and the return of large carnivores to Germany. His book writing endeavors include a children’s book about wildlife and compiling the German edition of World Changing--A Users Guide to the 21st Century. Meyer’s long lasting ambition is to bring Aldo Leopold’s heritage to Germany, which in 1992 resulted in the German edition of Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac. In his works Meyer strives to render the beautiful intricacies of wild nature to broader audiences, hoping always to heed the warning of Aldo Leopold: In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial. A link to Meyer’s ballet in the wilderness film.
Meyer was born in Bayreuth, Germany, and is a resident to Bavarian capital of Munich. For most of his career Meyer wrote for special interest magazines about nature, wildlife and hunting. Ever since 1997 he gave special attention to wilderness matters. One of his more widely recognized wilderness projects was an initiative that put the Bavarian State Ballet into the Wilderness of the Bavarian National Parks. This initiative resulted in different dance performances and also a movie, which Meyer directed. He has also produced and directed an educational movie about conservation and the return of large carnivores to Germany. His book writing endeavors include a children’s book about wildlife and compiling the German edition of World Changing--A Users Guide to the 21st Century. Meyer’s long lasting ambition is to bring Aldo Leopold’s heritage to Germany, which in 1992 resulted in the German edition of Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac. In his works Meyer strives to render the beautiful intricacies of wild nature to broader audiences, hoping always to heed the warning of Aldo Leopold: In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial. A link to Meyer’s ballet in the wilderness film.
Ian Michler (South Africa) Fellow
Over twenty years of safari guiding and photojournalism assignments have taken Michler to almost every national park, game reserve and wilderness area in southern and East Africa. While he has done freelance articles for a number of publications, most of his work as a feature writer and columnist is published in Africa Geographic and Africa Birds & Birding. His blog can be found on their website at www.africageographic.com/blogs/ianmichler. His writing covers all the environmental, conservation and ecotourism issues and challenges the African continent faces and he is particularly known for his work on the canned and trophy hunting debates and the sustainability of the safari footprint. Michler is also the author and photographer of seven natural history and travel books and is a past winner of the bird category in the Agfa Wildlife photographic competition. When not out in the field, he is based along the Garden Route in South Africa, where he runs Invent Africa (www.inventafrica.com), a small safari and ecotourism company offering trips to 15 different African countries.
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Kenton R. Miller (USA) Founding Fellow (deceased)
Dr. Miller’s list of accomplishments and esteemed positions within the conservation world are nearly un-matched. As an officer of the United National Food and Agriculture Organization, he headed FAO’s Latin American Program on Wildland Management. He authored the first text on park planning for the Spanish-speaking world, developed and taught graduate programs in parks and wildland management at CATIE (Costa Rica) and the University of Michigan’s School of Natural Resources, and played a significant role in the design and implementation of three World Park Congresses (1982, 1992, and 2003). Dr. Miller also played a significant role in the development of the Global Convention for the Conservation of Biological Diversity (CBD) and held the position of Director General of the IUCN from 1983-1988. He also recently finished his third term as Chair of the WCPA. Miller is a mentor to many conservation leaders around the world, and is recognized particularly for his energetic promotion of innovation and learning in the field of parks and protected areas.
Anne Minard (USA) Fellow
Minard is currently a Ted Scripps Fellow for Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She’s a freelance journalist with published articles in National Geographic News, The New York Times Science Times, the L.A. Times, Science magazine, the Associated Press, KNAU (Flagstaff, Arizona’s NPR affiliate), Arizona Highways, High Country News, National Parks magazine and other outlets. Early in her career Minard wrote about science and the environment for newspapers including the (Tucson) Arizona Daily Star, (Flagstaff) Arizona Daily Sun and the Idaho State Journal. She holds B.S. and Master's degrees in biology.
John Hanson Mitchell (USA) Fellow
For the last thirty years Mitchell has been editor of the environmental journal Sanctuary, published by the Massachusetts Audubon Society. He is also the author of nine books including Ceremonial Time: Fifteen Thousand Years on One Square Mile, Trespassing: An Inquiry into the Private Ownership of Land, and The Wildest Place on Earth: Italian Gardens and the Invention of Wilderness. A former journalist, Mitchell has had assignments in southern India, the South China Sea, and has written extensively about Western Europe. Currently he is writing a natural history of Boston. Among his accomplishments is the John Burroughs Essay Award.
John Moir (USA) Fellow
Moir is an award-winning author and environmental journalist whose special interest is the preservation of biodiversity. His dramatic nonfiction book, Return of the Condor, was a finalist for the 2008 William Saroyan International Writing Prize from Stanford University and was also selected as one of the five best pieces of science journalism in 2007 by the National Association of Science Writers. His Smithsonian magazine article, “Condors in a Coal Mine,” was the Grand Prize Winner for the 2009 Writer’s Digest National Writing Competition. John’s many articles have appeared in publications such as the Christian Science Monitor, San Francisco Chronicle, Smithsonian, Birder's World, Orion, Audubon California, High Country News, Birding, Outside, Poets and Writers, and elsewhere. He has been active in the movement to protect wildlife by replacing toxic lead ammunition with safer alternatives. John gave dozens of talks, spoke to government commissions, and wrote articles supporting the successful effort to win passage of a new California law banning lead bullets in condor country. He is continuing this work with a particular focus on the risk of sublethal lead poisoning to humans who eat game shot with lead bullets. To read John's Smithsonian magazine article on the burrowing owl, please go to: www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/The-Little-Owls-That-Live-Underground.html.
Andrew Muir (South Africa) Fellow
Muir is chief executive officer of the Wilderness Foundation, South Africa, and is an environmental activist, conservationist, and community leader. He has dedicated his life to conservation and social development and was
mentored by conservation icon Dr. Ian Player for 13 years. Muir took over Player's legacy in the management of the various organizations that Player had founded,
including the world famous Wilderness Leadership School and Wilderness
Foundation in South Africa. As director of the Wilderness Foundation, Muir is
involved in a number of projects dedicated to social and environmental
sustainability including the South African–based Umzi Wethu program which he
founded in 2006. The program targets vulnerable youth that show resilience and
ambition, but despair of opportunities to support their households, and gives
them the skills and training to become highly employable young adults. Muir was honored as an International Rolex Awards Laureate in 2008 as
well as the South African Conservationist of the Year in 2007. He was also
the winner of the 2011 Ernst & Young World Entrepreneur Awards Program in
the Social entrepreneur category. The award was won based on the large number
of sustainable program that the Wilderness Foundation runs dedicated to social
and environmental sustainability. Muir has a Masters Degree in Environment
and Development from the University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg and serves on a
number of non-profit and conservation boards.
Barbara Norton (USA) Associate
Barbara graduated with a BA in Chemistry from Florida Southern College and then received an MA in Librarianship and Information Science from the University of Denver. She was the Manager/Chief Librarian of the Technical Information Center at Manville Corporation for 11 years. Norton then became the Manager of Project Information for Chronopol Inc. (a company of ACX Technologies). At Chronopol she was the liason between the scientific researchers and the company’s patent attorneys. She is the founder of Norton Information Services which specializes in patent and scientific literature research.
Boyd Norton (USA) Founding Fellow
Norton has been photographing and working to save wilderness worldwide for more than 43 years and is the author and/or photographer of fourteen books. His work has been featured in most major magazines in the United States and Europe. Norton, a conservationist, has testified before the US Congress on behalf of park legislation and was a major factor in establishing the Jedediah Smith Wilderness Area, the Sawtooth National Recreation Area, and the Hells Canyon National Recreation Area in the United States.
Rosalia Omungo (Kenya) Fellow
Omungo is an award-winning journalist with Kenya Broadcasting Corporation. Besides reporting on general news she has taken a keen interest in development reporting--mainly environment, science, nature and health. She also produces a weekly TV program EarthWatch. In 2010 Omungo received the Thompson Foundation Commonwealth award for excellence in environmental reporting in Africa for highlighting the destruction of the Mau Forest, Kenya's tallest water tower. She also received the Kenya Media for Environment and Population (KEMEP) award for excellence in reporting on the environment and development. Omungo also enjoys traveling, learning about other cultures, reading, singing, and contemporary gospel music. She would love to see environmental governance entrenched in the hearts of people and governments; from developing an active interest in biodiversity conservation and issues pertaining to biodiversity loss, climate change and habitat degradation. Omungo is currently pursuing a Masters Degree in Development Communication. She may be reached at rayzalia@yahoo.com.
Diane Josephy Peavey (USA) Fellow
Peavey writes stories about her life on a sheep and cattle ranch in south-central Idaho--its people, history and the changing landscape of the American west. These pieces have aired weekly on Idaho Public Radio for 15 years and many are collected in her book Bitterbrush Country: Living on the Edge of the Land (Fulcrum Publishing, 2001). Her writings also have appeared in numerous magazines, journals and in anthologies. Peavey has been an invited poet at the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada and a panelist in discussions on Women in Ranching at this event. She was the first director of the Idaho Rural Council, the Literature Director for the Idaho Commission on the Arts and is the co-founder with her husband John of the October Trailing of the Sheep Festival in the Wood River Valley, Idaho.
Ian Player (South Africa) Founding Fellow
Player was born in South Africa in 1927 and educated at St. John’s College, Johannesburg. During World War II, he served in the 6th South African Armoured Division in Italy from 1944–1946. He joined the Natal Parks Board in 1952 and became warden of the Umfolozi Game Reserve. He obtained protection status for the Umfolozi and St. Lucia Wilderness areas, the first designated wilderness areas on the African continent. He helped save the southern race of the white rhino from extinction. He is the founder of the Wilderness Leadership School that for the last fifty years has educated generations of conservationists from three continents. He convened the first World Wilderness Congress in 1977 and the eight subsequent congresses around the world. He is the author of Zulu Wilderness.
Bernard Quetchenbach (USA) Fellow
Quetchenbach was born in Rochester, New York, and lives in Billings, Montana, where he teaches at Montana State University Billings. His poetry, essays, articles, reviews, and literary criticism have appeared in a variety of magazines and anthologies. He has published two books of poetry, The Hermit's Place (2010, Wild Leaf Press) and Everything as It Happens (2007, FootHills Publishing, two poetry chapbooks, and an ecocritical study, Back from the Far Field: American Nature Poetry in the Late Twentieth Century (2000, UP of Virginia). He was co-editor of Lake Hollingsworth: Reflections and Studies on a Florida Landmark (2005, History Press), and editor of a journal, The River Review/La Revue riviere, and is currently poetry editor of Pellucid Duck, a new online magazine. A long-time member of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (Asle), he serves on the program planning board for Nature and Environmental Writers/College and University Educators (New-Cue), and is a board member of the Eastern Wildlands Chapter of the Montana Wilderness Association.
Quetchenbach was born in Rochester, New York, and lives in Billings, Montana, where he teaches at Montana State University Billings. His poetry, essays, articles, reviews, and literary criticism have appeared in a variety of magazines and anthologies. He has published two books of poetry, The Hermit's Place (2010, Wild Leaf Press) and Everything as It Happens (2007, FootHills Publishing, two poetry chapbooks, and an ecocritical study, Back from the Far Field: American Nature Poetry in the Late Twentieth Century (2000, UP of Virginia). He was co-editor of Lake Hollingsworth: Reflections and Studies on a Florida Landmark (2005, History Press), and editor of a journal, The River Review/La Revue riviere, and is currently poetry editor of Pellucid Duck, a new online magazine. A long-time member of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (Asle), he serves on the program planning board for Nature and Environmental Writers/College and University Educators (New-Cue), and is a board member of the Eastern Wildlands Chapter of the Montana Wilderness Association.
Rajeev Raghavan (India) Academic
Raghavan has been writing popular articles as well as research papers on freshwater fish conservation and management in the local, national and international arena since 2000. Currently there are 45 publications to his credit which include 15 popular articles and 16 research papers (cited in the SCI) apart from book chapters and conference proceedings.
Susan Richardson (UK) Fellow
Richardson is a poet, performer and educator based in Wales. Her first collection of poetry, Creatures of the Intertidal Zone, was informed by her journey, for which she was awarded a Churchill Travel Fellowship, through Iceland, Greenland and Newfoundland, and one of the central themes is the impact of climate change on the Arctic and sub-Arctic. Her latest collection, Where the Air is Rarefied, is a collaboration with a visual artist on various environmental/conservation issues. Richardson has lectured in creative writing at Cardiff and Swansea Universities, been Visiting Academic at Flinders University in Australia and regularly runs Wild Writing Workshops that combine writing and walking in inspiring wilderness locations. She has performed her work, both solo and as one of the Polar Poets, at literary and environmental festivals throughout the UK, and is poet-in-residence on BBC Radio 4’s Saturday Live. For further information, see www.susanrichardsonwriter.co.uk and http://susanrichardsonwriter.blogspot.com.
Jaime Rojo (Spain) Associate
Rojo studied Environmental Sciences at the Univesidad Autonoma de Madrid and at the Universite de Lausanne in Switzerland. It was Rojo's passion for conservation of wild nature, and keen interest in photography, that led him from Spain to Mexico where he's been working for two local conservation NGOs, Sierra Madre and Unidos para la Conservacion. During this time he has participated in different projects to promote the concept of wilderness in Latin America, such as El Carmen-Big Bend Conservation Corridor and WILD9, the 9th World Wilderness Congress of which he was the Executive Director in Mexico City. Rojo is also an Emerging Member of the International League of Conservation Photographers.
Bittu Sahgal (India) Founding Fellow
Sahgal is the editor of Sanctuary Asia, India’s premier wildlife and ecology magazine and is at the forefront of the battle to protect India from the worst impacts of climate change (www.sanctuaryasia.com). In 2000 he founded Kids for Tigers, the Sanctuary Tiger Program that reaches over 650 schools in 15 Indian cities covering one million children annually. Their motto: “The tiger will only be saved if its forests are saved.” By saving these forests, India protects over 600 of its purest rivers. And in the process the forests sequester and store carbon in the most effective way possible.
Robbie Schmelzer (USA) Associate
Schmelzer is with Animals and Earth, a service that provides nature and conservation photos for non-commercial use in blogs, websites and social networks. Not presently a writer but has a similar mission in conservation and is eager to explore, contribute, create, and share with the other members. www.animalsandearth.com
Doug Scott (USA) Founding Fellow
Scott has a long career with the Wilderness Society, Sierra Club, and Campaign for America’s Wilderness. He has worked extensively in getting wilderness bills through Congress, and his book The Enduring Wilderness is an overview of the Wilderness Act and a technical manual for wilderness conservation. Scott was a key figure in the first Earth Day and has won the John Muir award from the Sierra Club. He is currently policy and research director of the Campaign for American Wilderness www.leaveitwild.org/.
Amy Seidl (USA) Fellow
Seidl is the author of Early Spring: An Ecologist and Her Children Wake to a Warming World (2009), a book that blends memoir and science writing in its exploration of global climate change in a local landscape. Early Spring won a "Best of the Best" award from the Association of Academic and University Presses in 2010. Seidl is also the author of Finding Higher Ground: Adaptation in the Age of Warming (2011), a book that examines how natural systems and human cultures are responding evolutionarily to climate change. Seidl's academic position is as Lecturer in the Environmental Studies Program at the University of Vermont in Burlington. Her current writing projects include a narrative children's book on climate change and a series of literary non-fiction essays. She can be reached at amy@amyseidl.com.
Bill Sherwonit (USA) Fellow
Born in Bridgeport, Conn., nature writer Bill Sherwonit has called Alaska home since 1982. He has contributed essays and articles to a wide variety of newspapers, magazines, journals, and anthologies and is also the author of 12 books. His two most recent books are Living with Wildness: An Alaskan Odyssey and Changing Paths: Travels and Meditations in Alaska’s Arctic Wilderness, both published by the University of Alaska Press. Most of Sherwonit’s work focuses on Alaskan subjects, with an emphasis on natural history, wilderness adventure, wildlands preservation, environmental issues, wildlife management, relationship with place, and notions of wildness, including the wildness to be found in and around his adopted home, Anchorage. His website is www.billsherwonit.alaskawriters.com.
Newton Sibanda (Zambia) Fellow
Sibanda is a Zambian journalist for the Zambia Daily Mail as Weekend Mail editor and environmental columnist with over 18 years of media experience. His areas of interest are; conservation, environment, water and sanitation, energy, health, and socio-economic issues. In the last decade, he has increasingly written about issues of climate change. Sibanda also writes for Panos Features, Ooskanews, AudienceScapes, and the Norwegian Agency for International Development (NORAD) development newspaper Bistandsaktuelt. He is a member of the International Federation of Environmental Journalists (IFEJ), African Network of Environmental Journalists (ANEJ) and president of the ANEJ Zambia Chapter. Currently Sibanda is studying towards an LLB degree with the University of South Africa to become an environmental lawyer. He and his wife Mwiza have a daughter and a son.
Aaron Teasdale (USA) Fellow
Teasdale has been a freelance magazine writer and photographer for 12 years, focusing on wilderness adventure. Conservation is explicit or implicit in all of his stories. He’s been a contributing editor for Bike magazine, a correspondent for Powder magazine, a columnist for Hooked on the Outdoors magazine, and photo editor for Outside Missoula magazine. Teasdale also served as deputy editor of Adventure Cyclist magazine for five years, and is currently a contributing editor for Backcountry magazine. Teasdale’s articles and images have appeared in dozens of publications around the world, including Audubon, Sierra, Men's Journal, National Geographic Adventure, and others. Awards: Lowell Thomas Award for the Best Adventure Travel Story of 2009, and just won a Northern Lights Award (Canadian travel writing award) for his story about cycling British Columbia's threatened Flathead Valley.
Mitch Tobin (USA) Fellow
Tobin worked as a journalist in the US from 1999 to 2006, covering wildlife, wildfires, and other environmental issues for the Tucson Citizen, Arizona Daily Star, and High Country News. His first book, Endangered, grew out of Tobin's yearlong series on Arizona's endangered species, which was a finalist for the John B. Oakes Award for Distinguished Environmental Journalism. His work was honored in the Best of the West competition and received first prizes from the Arizona Press Club and Arizona Associated Press Managing Editors. Tobin serves as a consultant to leading conservation groups and foundations.
Tobin worked as a journalist in the US from 1999 to 2006, covering wildlife, wildfires, and other environmental issues for the Tucson Citizen, Arizona Daily Star, and High Country News. His first book, Endangered, grew out of Tobin's yearlong series on Arizona's endangered species, which was a finalist for the John B. Oakes Award for Distinguished Environmental Journalism. His work was honored in the Best of the West competition and received first prizes from the Arizona Press Club and Arizona Associated Press Managing Editors. Tobin serves as a consultant to leading conservation groups and foundations.
Carolyne Tomno (Kenya) Fellow
Tomno
is a career journalist currently working as a features and documentary
producer, and also specializing in climate change and environmental issues at
Kass Media Group, one of the leading and privately owned media houses in Kenya.
Tomno learned to appreciate nature at an early age, growing up in the beautiful
Rift Valley of Kenya. She has done several stories on the environment like the
effects of mercury products on the environment and how the developing world is
grappling with it. Tomno is an admirer of the late Kenyan Nobel laureate
Wangari Maathai, and urges everyone to honor her memory and care for the
environment. As Maathia once said “nature is very unforgiving, if you destroy
nature, nature will destroy you.”
Elena Torres (New Zealand) Associate
Torres has a BS in biology and is very interested in conservation. At WILD 9 in Merida, Mexico, she was the media coordinator for Mexico. Currently living in New Zealand she has written a blog about her experiences in conservation sites around southeast Asia.
Diogo Verissimo (UK) Founding Fellow
Verissimo started writing about conservation and biodiversity in 2006, as a contributor to the e-zine of the Portuguese Nature Photography Community. Those contributions sparked his interest and prompted him to engage with the press not only in Portugal, his home country, but also in the different countries where his career as a conservation biologist had taken him. In Portugal, he became a regular contributor to the magazine Parks and Wildlife and other publications such as Pardela the magazine of the Portuguese Society for the Study of Birds. In 2009 Verissimo started his own column on the environment in the Portuguese regional newspaper "Voz da minha terra." He is in the process of writing his first book on the professional lives of conservation biologists in the field and has also been published worldwide with the magazines BBC Wildlife in the UK and Zwazo, in the Seychelles, together with the newspaper La Voz de Tortuguero in Costa Rica.
Jessica L Walker (Australia) Associate
Walker was born in Perth, Western Australia--the most isolated capital city in the world. Dubbed "the City of Lights" by astronaut John Glenn on 20 February 1962, Perth has always been surrounded by unpopulated wilderness. Walker grew up playing on unspoiled beaches and in untamed bush, and is fierce in her belief that the next generation must be allowed to do the same. Walker graduated from the University of Western Australia with a doctorate in history and a bachelor of laws, winning the Richard Kiwanuka Prize in International Humanitarian and Refugee Law in 2009. Her legal career to date has focused on the international relationships between governments and corporations, with particular reference to the interaction of international conservation agreements and the Australian Constitution.
Marianne D. Wallace (USA) Founding Fellow
Wallace is a natural science educator, writer, and illustrator. Her work has appeared in more than 30 books and publications. She has also been an elementary school science teacher, a writer for the US Forest Service, and a tour guide in at the Los Angeles County Arboretum. Recently she received a Woman of Achievement Award from the YWCA of the San Gabriel Valley. She lives between the Pacific Ocean coastline and the Mojave Desert (an hour’s drive each way) in the foothills of Monrovia, California, with her botanist husband.
Wallace is a natural science educator, writer, and illustrator. Her work has appeared in more than 30 books and publications. She has also been an elementary school science teacher, a writer for the US Forest Service, and a tour guide in at the Los Angeles County Arboretum. Recently she received a Woman of Achievement Award from the YWCA of the San Gabriel Valley. She lives between the Pacific Ocean coastline and the Mojave Desert (an hour’s drive each way) in the foothills of Monrovia, California, with her botanist husband.
Julianne Warren (USA) Fellow
Warren is the author of Aldo Leopold’s Odyssey (published under the surname Newton), an intellectual biography of the twentieth-century American conservation ecologist and author of A Sand County Almanac. Her work unfolds Leopold's journey to better understandings of harmonious human-nature relationships. Julianne has published a number of academic and creative writings on related subjects and is presently working on a second book aimed at envisioning fresh, authentic stories connecting human happiness, utopian imagination, and real places into the unknown twenty-first century. Warren has a Ph.D. in wildlife ecology from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She has served as past president of the John Burroughs Institute in Roxbury, NY and is on the Board of Directors of the Association of Environmental Studies and Sciences. Julianne is a member of the Liberal Studies faculty and an Associate with the Environmental Studies Program at New York University. Academic website: http://environment.as.nyu.edu/object/environment.juliannewarren. Online interview: http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/pub/scientists-nightstand-julianne-lutz-newton. Recent online publication: http://precipitatejournal.com/home/journal/issue-1/nonfiction-warren/
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Hubert Weinzierl (Germany) Fellow
Weinzierl is the president of Deutscher Naturschutzring (German League of Nature, Conservation and Environment [and an umbrella organization of 105 NGOs, 5.5 million members]). He has been involved in the environmental movement since the 1950s and is considered the unifying figure between classic and modern environmental policies in Germany. "The death of forests will change our country more than the second world war."--Hubert Weinzierl
Ted Williams (USA) Founding Fellow
Williams has been writing full time on environmental issues, with special attention to fish and wildlife conservation, since 1970. In addition to freelancing for national magazines, he contributes regular feature-length conservation columns to Audubon and Fly Rod & Reel where he serves as editor-at-large and conservation editor respectively. Williams was presented with the Conservation Achievement Award by the National Wildlife Federation, received the Federal Wildlife Officers Association award for his conservation writing, and the Aldo Leopold Award for “outstanding contributions to fisheries and land ecology” by the Federation of Fly Fishers. He has been named to the Jade of Chiefs--the highest conservation award given by the Outdoor Writers Association of America. And for his reporting on federal forest-fire policy the American Society of Magazine Editors voted Audubon one of five finalists in the National Magazine Awards.
Franco Zunino (Italy) Fellow
Zunino is a pioneer of the Italian wilderness movement and co-founder and General Secretary of Associazione Italiana Wilderness (AIW) (http://www.wilderness.it/). He is a board member of Foundation for Gaia, a former Ranger in the Gran Paradiso National Park, former staff member of the Abruzzo National Park, biologist of the Abruzzo Brown Bear, and member of the IUCN Species Survival Commission--Bear Specialist Group. Zunino is also an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Wilderness published by the WILD Foundation (US) and is on the International Board of Senior Advisers of the Listening Point Foundation (US) which promotes Sigurd F. Olson's philosophy and builds upon his legacy in the field of wilderness education. Zunino is a prolific writer, photographer and eminent commentator on wilderness philosophy. He has pioneered working relationships with municipalities and regional governments that led to proclamations of 58 new wilderness areas throughout Italy. Zunino was proclaimed one of the Wilderness Pioneers at WILD9. He may be reached at: wilderness_italia@alice.it.
Zunino is a pioneer of the Italian wilderness movement and co-founder and General Secretary of Associazione Italiana Wilderness (AIW) (http://www.wilderness.it/). He is a board member of Foundation for Gaia, a former Ranger in the Gran Paradiso National Park, former staff member of the Abruzzo National Park, biologist of the Abruzzo Brown Bear, and member of the IUCN Species Survival Commission--Bear Specialist Group. Zunino is also an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Wilderness published by the WILD Foundation (US) and is on the International Board of Senior Advisers of the Listening Point Foundation (US) which promotes Sigurd F. Olson's philosophy and builds upon his legacy in the field of wilderness education. Zunino is a prolific writer, photographer and eminent commentator on wilderness philosophy. He has pioneered working relationships with municipalities and regional governments that led to proclamations of 58 new wilderness areas throughout Italy. Zunino was proclaimed one of the Wilderness Pioneers at WILD9. He may be reached at: wilderness_italia@alice.it.
