- Dawn M. Martin, President
- Hollis Hope, Managing Director
- Valerie Usher, Director of Operations
- Nancy Baron, Director of Ocean Science Outreach, COMPASS
- Nadine S. Bartholomew, Business Outreach and Development Manager, Seafood Choices Alliance
- Anne Bolen, Communications Manager, SeaWeb
- Mike Boots, Director, Seafood Choices Alliance
- Philip Chou, Manager of Conservation Outreach, Seafood Choices Alliance
- Valerie Craig, Senior Project Manager, Seafood Choices Alliance
- Shannon Crownover, Program Director, European Programs
- Chad English, Director of Science Policy Outreach, COMPASS
- Brittany Grayson, Science Outreach and Policy Coordinator, COMPASS
- Emily Howgate, UK Programme Coordinator, Seafood Choices Alliance
- Corinne Knutson, Program Coordinator, Coral Program
- Bruce McKay, Senior Researcher
- Kieran Mulvaney, Ocean Update Editor
- Connie Murtagh, Research Associate
- Elizabeth Neeley, Assistant Director of Science Outreach, COMPASS
- Eric Punkay, Senior Research Associate, SeaWeb
- Vasemaca Rarabici, Program Associate, Asia Pacific Program
- Kathleen Reaugh, Ecosystem-Based Management Communications Project Manager
- Tyisha Rich, Financial Assistant
- Julia Roberson, Senior Project Manager
- Melanie Siggs, UK Programme Director, Seafood Choices Alliance
- Farley Lord Smith, Program Assistant
- Elisabeth Vallet, European Programme Director, Seafood Choices Alliance
- Reuven Walder, Marine Photobank Director
- Matthew Wright, Outreach Specialist, COMPASS
Dawn M. Martin
Dawn M. Martin joined SeaWeb in 2004 as Executive Director and became President and Chair of the Board in December 2006. Under her leadership, SeaWeb has established offices in France and the United Kingdom, expanded its programs by forging new alliances to protect the world's ocean, and doubled the size of its budget and staff. Martin serves as a Principal for the COMPASS partnership and on the advisory committee of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School. She also sits on the Steering Committee as a founding member of the Global Forum on Oceans, Coasts and Islands that works to ensure implementation of the international ocean commitments made at the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development.
As an effective advocate in public policy and political circles for more than 20 years, Martin brings a multi-disciplinary approach that builds on her skills as an attorney, strategic policy professional, communications specialist and ocean conservation expert. During the Clinton/Gore Administration she held several posts, including Associate Deputy Administrator at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Previously Martin served as founding Chief Operating Officer at Oceana, an international ocean conservation organization and Political and Legislative Director for American Oceans Campaign. She co-chaired the Clean Water Network and co-authored “Estuaries on the Edge: The Vital Link Between Land and Sea.”
A native of Los Angeles, California, Martin received her undergraduate degree from Loyola Marymount University and her Juris Doctorate from Loyola Law School, Los Angeles in 1986. She studied international human rights and humanitarian law at the International Institute for Human Rights, Strasbourg, France and the Henry Dunant Center for Humanitarian Dialogue, Geneva, Switzerland.
Hollis Hope
Hollis Hope became Managing Director in December 2006 after joining SeaWeb the previous year to help create the Philanthropy Awareness Initiative. Along with the President, Hope is responsible for strategic direction, fundraising, and providing leadership to SeaWeb staff in the United States, Canada, Fiji, France, Papua New Guinea and the United Kingdom. She will also oversee strategic communications for the organization.
Hope has extensive strategic planning, research, project management and organizational development experience. Her primary area of expertise lies in using strategic communications to advance public policy. She has provided creative counsel in brand-building and is skilled at framing issues and translating highly technical information for many audiences.
Prior to joining SeaWeb, Hope was Colorado Health Institute's first Director of Planning and Communications. Previous positions include Vice President at AcademyHealth, Senior Advisor at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Air and Radiation, and Communications Specialist in EPA’s Office of Water. She has provided expert counsel as an independent consultant to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and Fannie Mae. A former journalist, Hope has 25 years of professional experience and has published extensively in magazines, newspapers, journals and on the Web.
Born and raised on Long Island, New York and near Puget Sound, Washington, Hope holds a Master’s degree in Public Administration from Harvard University and a B.A. from Cornell University.
Valerie Usher,
Valerie serves as Director of Operations and Secretary for SeaWeb. Prior to joining SeaWeb Valerie worked at AcademyHealth for nine years. Her main responsibilities were in the areas of finance, human resources, and office management as Manager of Finance and Administration. Valerie received her bachelor's degree in Accounting from the State University of New York at Oswego. During her accounting program at Oswego, she interned with the accounting department at Oswego City Hospital and the finance department at Oswego City Savings.
Nancy Baron
Nancy Baron is the Ocean Science Outreach Director for SeaWeb and COMPASS (Communication Partnership for Science and the Sea). Nancy has led the outreach on numerous "tipping point" marine conservation science papers. As the lead communications trainer for the Aldo Leopold Leadership Program and in her capacity with COMPASS, Baron works with environmental scientists training them to communicate their research more effectively to journalists, policymakers and the public. She also helps brings together scientists working on related research to help integrate and catalyze conservation-related research and action.
Baron began her career as a national parks biologist, then became Director of Education for the Vancouver Aquarium before transitioning to science journalism. She has an interdisciplinary Masters degree in Global Marine Studies from the University of British Columbia and a B.Sc. in Zoology. From 1996-2000, while freelance writing science features, Nancy also worked with the Biodiversity Conservation Network (WWF, TNC and WRI) doing investigative evaluation of U.S. Aid projects that link business, the environment and local communities.
Since 1997, Baron has won two Canadian Science in Society awards, a National Magazine award and the Western Magazine award for science. A natural sciences columnist for the Vancouver Sun from 1993 through 1997, she was also an on-camera environmental columnist for Global TV and has hosted natural history documentaries for Discovery Channel in British Columbia, Trinidad and Nepal. She is the author of the popular field guide, "Birds of the Pacific Northwest," and has led natural history birding trips to many places around the world.
Nadine S. Bartholomew,
Nadine Bartholomew is the Business Development Manager for the Seafood Choices Alliance. Prior to joining SeaWeb in 2006, she worked at the Food Marketing Institute (FMI) where she developed and implemented programs that promoted the community relations, supplier diversity and urban affairs initiatives of food retailers and wholesalers including FMI’s Neighborhood Partnership Awards program (NPA). Nadine began her career in the supermarket industry at Giant of Maryland (an Ahold USA subsidiary). As the Marketing Specialist, Nadine was responsible for developing marketing campaigns to promote all consumer-based initiatives for the 192-store chain including Giant’s award winning Healthy Ideas program. She has an MBA from Loyola College of Maryland and is based in the Washington, D.C. area.
Anne Bolen
Anne Bolen is the Communications Manager for SeaWeb. As a part of the SeaStrategy Network, she manages SeaWeb’s external and internal communications and works with partners in the conservation community to illuminate ocean issues. Prior to joining SeaWeb, Bolen was an editor at Smithsonian magazine, managed the editing and production of many books about conservation and wildlife for Smithsonian Institution Press and Iowa State University Press and was managing editor of a national medical journal. She is a member of the Society of Environmental Journalists, the National Association of Science Writers and the D.C. Science Writers Association, for which she served on its board for five years and a term as its president. Bolen is also a wildlife rehabilitator and an avid hiker. And, having degrees in anthropology and journalism from the University of Missouri, Columbia, she pursues travel and the interaction with cultures around the world.
Mike Boots
Mike Boots is the Director of the Seafood Choices Alliance. The Alliance is an international association working to advance the market for sustainable seafood and highlighting the need for a global solution to threats facing the ocean. Seafood Choices Alliance brings ocean conservation to the table by convening and connecting industry leaders, conservationists, policy makers, chefs, fishermen and others in search of pragmatic solutions.
Boots began his career as Development Associate for American Oceans Campaign in the early 1990s, and since that time has worked extensively with broad coalitions on a wide array of environmental policies and programs. He then served at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, forging solutions to water quality and coastal protection challenges, first in Washington, DC and later as a senior political advisor in California.
At the conclusion of the Clinton-Gore Administration, Boots was hired by the San Francisco public affairs firm McGuire and Company to manage a media and public education campaign on energy conservation during California's energy crisis. The statewide campaign was successful in shifting consumer behavior and reducing energy consumption at the height of the state's blackouts. Most recently, he served in Washington, DC as the Environmental and Natural Resources Advisor to the Governor of California, representing the Governor, his cabinet and the state before Congress and the federal government.
Boots received his Master of Public Administration from the Maxwell School of Public Affairs at Syracuse University in 1994. He received his undergraduate degree in Communications from the University of California Los Angeles.
Philip Chou
Philip Chou is a Conservation Outreach Manager for the Seafood Choices Alliance. He helps marine conservation NGOs to identify and implement strategies toward greater environmental sustainability in the global seafood industry. HIs outreach work bridges industry partners with appropriate NGOs and joins up efforts of the conservation community for greater effectiveness. Prior to joining SeaWeb in 2007, he served as China Program Officer for Conservation International, linking businesses, NGOs and governments through biodiversity conservation partnerships in China.
Philip began his career at RESOLVE--Results through Consensu, where he mediated, facilitated and managed a committee of diverse stakeholders working to develop a sustainable market for commercial wind energy in the United States. A native of the Outer Banks of North Carolina, Philip has served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Russia and a forest restoration volunteer in Kenya with A Rocha International. He is fluent in Chinese and conversant in Russian and Spanish. He holds a M.A in International Environmental Policy from the Monterey Institute of International Studies and a B.S. in Biology from Guilford College.
Valerie Craig
Valerie Craig is a Senior Project Manager with the Seafood Choices Alliance. Craig works to bring a diverse array of stakeholders from the seafood industry together to promote sustainable use of ocean resources, most notably through her management of the annual Seafood Summit. She also works on development and production of publications for Seafood Choices Alliance in the U.S., such as market reports and Sourcing Seafood: A Professional’s Guide to Sourcing Ocean-friendly Fish and Shellfish.
Craig began working with SeaWeb shortly after completing her Master's in Environmental Management from the Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. While at Yale, she focused on economics, policy and law, and was particularly interested in the use of economic tools in environmental policy-making such as the use of transferable quotas in fisheries management. Craig holds a bachelor's degree in International Relations from the University of California, Davis, where she focused on international environmental policy. Currently based out of Rome, Italy, she is currently studying Italian and is fluent in Spanish. Craig enjoys traveling to visit family and explore new places, and in her free time she enjoys trying new recipes in the kitchen, and spending time in the sun or by the sea.
Shannon Crownover
Shannon Crownover is a program director for SeaWeb’s strategic communications campaigns. She is leading Fair Catch, a responsible fishing campaign in Hawaii in partnership with The Nature Conservancy and Malama Hawaii that has resulted in severe restrictions on the use of gill nets. She also advises on Too Precious To Wear, a new campaign to protect deep sea corals used in jewelry and décor. For six years, she directed Caviar Emptor, an award-winning campaign with NRDC and the Pew Institute for Ocean Science that resulted in a U.S. ban on beluga caviar and stronger international protections for endangered sturgeon. She managed SeaWeb’s first projects in Europe, including the expansion of Seafood Choices Alliance and the launch of the L’Autre Caviar campaign in France. During her seven years with SeaWeb, she also has managed market research projects, led a journalist fellowship program on ocean sciences, coordinated communications trainings for marine scientists and NGOs, and organized a pilot program for monitoring sturgeon in Kazakhstan.
Prior to joining SeaWeb, Crownover worked for public relations firm Ruder Finn for seven years, ultimately as senior account supervisor at its headquarters in New York City. She received a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Chad English
Chad English joined SeaWeb in January 2007 as Director of Science Policy Outreach for COMPASS, where he works to connect ocean conservation science and scientists to federal ocean policy and management discussions in Washington, D.C. He first came to Washington for a John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship, which he served in the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation working on ocean and fisheries issues. English comes to SeaWeb from the House Committee on Science, where he worked on legislation and oversight related to ocean science and federal ocean governance. He received a Bachelor's degree from the University of California at Santa Cruz and a Ph.D. in Oceanography from the Scripps Institute of Oceanography at the University of California at San Diego.
Brittany Grayson
Brittany Grayson supports, and coordinates efforts between, COMPASS’s science outreach and policy teams. She helps scientists communicate important messages about marine science to the public by connecting them with journalists and policy makers, and helping them paint pictures of their science with vivid words and accessible metaphors. Brittany recently earned her science writing certificate from University of California Santa Cruz, where she completed internships with the Monterey Herald, the UC Santa Cruz Press Office, the Monterey Bay Aquarium, and Discover Magazine. She received a B.S. in Ecology, Evolutionary, and Population Biology from Purdue University, where she was allowed to spend summers watching whales and tagging sea turtles.
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Emily Howgate
In April 2007 Emily Howgate joined the London office of Seafood Choices Alliance as the UK Program Coordinator; responsible for helping develop relationships with a broad range of sustainable seafood stakeholders and providing logistical support to the UK program. Prior to joining Seafood Choices Alliance she has worked in the marine programs of several conservation organizations. In particular her experience relates to the impact of unsustainable fisheries on marine flagship species, including sea turtles and albatrosses. Through social research she conducted, Howgate has a strong comprehension of sustainable seafood and consumer and retailer knowledge associated with this in the UK.
Howgate is passionate about sustainability and has been involved with environmental education initiatives in the UK. Her commitment to the environment, and particularly the marine realm, was honed through her Ecology degree at the University of East Anglia, UK and also a stint studying in California.
Corinne Knutson,
Corinne Knutson coordinates communications and outreach for SeaWeb’s Coral Program. As part of this program, she works on Too Precious To Wear, a new campaign to protect corals used in jewelry and home décor, and the Asia Pacific Program, a regional program dedicated to enhancing the communications skills of local ocean experts and broadening media coverage of Pacific marine issues. In 2008, Knutson will also serve as the Coral Program’s media liaison for the 11th International Coral Reef Symposium in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Prior to joining the Coral Program team, Knutson worked as a communications assistant for SeaWeb’s Fair Catch, a responsible fishing campaign to restore Hawaii’s nearshore resources. Knutson is certainly familiar with Hawaii and its marine issues. She grew up primarily in Hawaii, and spent most of her childhood sailing throughout the Pacific Ocean aboard her family’s 50-foot sailboat, the Contessa. Knutson also received her bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Hawaii and worked for several years as a freelance writer for Honolulu magazine, Honolulu Weekly, Pacific Edge magazine and the Hawaii Marine newspaper before finding her true calling in ocean conservation.
Bruce McKay
Bruce McKay, SeaWeb's senior researcher, specializes in monitoring research on the cumulative impacts of human activities on the marine environment. He is currently a member of the Harvard Medical School Working Group on Marine-based Disease Events and Climate Change, to investigate the possible links between meteorological conditions and ocean events such as algal blooms and disease events along the U.S. east coast.
Prior to his work with SeaWeb, McKay worked for Greenpeace International, as founder and director of Greenpeace Montreal, as Science Adviser to the biodiversity campaign at Greenpeace International, and as the Ecotoxicology and Small Cetaceans Campaigner responsible for addressing marine mammal die-offs, organizing research on marine mammal contaminant issues in the U.S. and on harbour porpoise gill net interactions in eastern Canada. As part of this work, he actively campaigned during the 1987/1988 bottlenose dolphin die-off along the U.S. east coast through which he helped develop a governmental program to monitor the health of marine mammals and to address mass mortality and stranding events in U.S. waters.
McKay was born in British Colombia and currently lives in Montreal, Canada.
Kieran Mulvaney
Kieran Mulvaney is editor of SeaWeb’s monthly publication, Ocean Update. He was previously the founding director of the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society, founding editor of Sonar and the International Whale Bulletin, and an ocean ecology campaigner for Greenpeace International. He was most recently Senior Communications Advisor for Greenpeace USA.
Mulvaney has published over 400 articles in magazines and newspapers such as The Guardian, The Sunday Times Magazine, New Scientist, New Internationalist, BBC Wildlife, and E Magazine. He wrote the main text of the Greenpeace Book of Dolphins (Century, London/Sterling, New York, 1990) and of Witness: Twenty-five Years on the Environmental Front Line. (Andre Deutsch, London, 1996). He is the author of At the Ends of the Earth: A History of the Polar Regions (Island Press, Washington DC, 2001), and The Whaling Season: An Inside Account of the Struggle to Stop Commercial Whaling (Island Press, 2003). He has contributed chapters to Beyond the Bars: The Zoo Dilemma (Thorsons, 1987), Conservation of Whales and Dolphins: Science and Practice (Wiley, 1996), Seas at the Millennium: An Environmental Assessment (Elsevier, 2000), The Future of Cetaceans in a Changing World (Transnational, 2003), and Feeling the Heat: Dispatches from the Frontlines of Climate Change (Routledge 2004).
He has been nominated for the Jane Bagley Lehman Award for Excellence in Public Advocacy, and for the National Book Award. He is also an award-winning sportswriter, a columnist for ESPN.com, and a correspondent for Reuters.
He is presently concluding a book on boxing and Las Vegas, and preparing a book on polar bears.
Connie Murtagh
Connie Murtagh is Research Associate for SeaWeb. Most recently she was the Senior Corporate Responsibility Researcher for Co-op America’s Responsible Shopper program, which provided consumers with information on the social and environmental performances of many of the top consumer companies in the US. Prior to that she acted as Research Director for the International Trade Information Service (ITIS), a non-profit organization that reported on trade issues and their effects on human rights and the environment.
Formerly, as the Research Coordinator for Greenpeace's International Toxic Trade Campaign, Murtagh worked on issues such as countries illegally dumping their mercury wastes in South Africa, the U.S. incinerator industry, and the global shrimp aquaculture operations. She graduated with a B.A. in English from LeMoyne College in Syracuse, N.Y. and attended graduate classes at Boston's Emerson University. She currently lives in New York State with her husband, son, dog and a duck named Jim Vallette.
Elizabeth Neeley,
Elizabeth Flynn Neeley is the Asia Pacific Program Coordinator. Neeley manages communication consultants in the field; organizes trainings, workshops, and classes; and develops efforts to connect scientists, media, and decision makers. Prior to joining SeaWeb, Neeley was a PhD student at in the Boston
University Marine Program. Her dissertation work on the visual ecology of tropical reef fishes took her to coral reefs across the Caribbean and tropical Eastern Pacific. These travels solidified her commitment to coastal marine conservation issues, while teaching classes in animal behavior, molecular evolution, and marine ecology taught her how to make science make sense.
Neeley’s current work with SeaWeb integrates her dedication to and training in science with her interests in communication and design. Her other interests include hiking, cooking, SCUBA diving and the visual arts. She holds a Master of Science from Boston University and graduated with her B.S. in marine biology from the University of Maryland.
Eric Punkay
Eric Punkay is a Senior Research Associate with SeaWeb. As part of the Sea Strategy Network, Eric works to coordinate the aquaculture activities of SeaWeb’s various programs to provide integration across the organization. He uses his analytical background to make sure the aquaculture activities of SeaWeb reflect the cutting edge of aquaculture research, interacting with both scientists and industry, so that fish farming will live up to its promise of relieving pressure on wild fish stocks and fish farmers will be stewards of our ocean planet. Currently, Eric is designing and managing a market research program to examine knowledge and perception about wild-caught and farm-raised shrimp.
Prior to joining SeaWeb, Eric was an adjunct professor of environmental science at Sacramento State University. Eric earned his Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley in ecosystem science in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, and holds a bachelor’s degree in biology from Colorado College. In his spare time, Eric loves to travel with his family and to be in the outdoors, hiking, camping or snorkeling, anything that puts him closer to nature.
Vasemaca Rarabici
Based in Suva, Fiji, Vasemaca Rarabici is a program associate for the Asia Pacific Program. Rarabici teaches communication workshops for media and helps connect them with scientists and decision makers. Rarabici was a part-time tutor at the Fiji Institute of Technology's Media and Journalism Department as well as the deputy chief of staff at the Fiji Times, senior reporter with the Fiji Daily Post and,most recently, the editor of the Sunday Sun. With more than 10 years experience as a journalist, Rarabici has traveled the world to cover various issues, from politics to the environment. She has a diploma in online journalism from the Konrad Atenauer Centre for Journalism at the Ateneo de Manila University and is now pursing a diploma in Pacific journalism at the University of the South Pacific. Rarabici has won a number of awards for her writing, including the 2005 Pacific Islands News Association Print Award and 2006 South Pacific Regional Environment Programme Print Award.
Kathleen Reaugh
Kathleen Reaugh manages SeaWeb’s Ecosystem-Based Management Communications Project. She leads SeaWeb’s effort to enable greater communication and understanding among NGOs advocating and implementing an ecosystem approach to ocean management and to strengthen and unify their language and voice with the public and decision makers.
Reaugh received her Ph.D. in marine biology from the University of Cape Town in December 2006. Her dissertation research included a study of the connectivity of rocky shores within a marine reserve on the east coast of South Africa, and most of her fieldwork took place within the Greater St. Lucia Wetland Park, a World Heritage Site. Reaugh has spent a cumulative 9 years working and studying in Africa. She has worked as a rural inland aquaculture extension agent and environmental educator in Cameroon, a fishery observer in New Brunswick, Canada, an environmental educator and biologist in Santa Cruz, California, and a university-level teaching assistant and sea turtle science outreach expert in South Africa. Reaugh holds a bachelor’s degree with high honors in marine biology from the University of California Santa Cruz and an honours degree in marine biology from the University of Cape Town, is an avid scuba diver, hiker, traveler and Frisbee player, and speaks fluent French with a sub-Saharan accent.
Tyisha Rich
As SeaWeb’s Financial Assistant, Tyisha assists the Director of Operations in daily finance and accounting activities as well as human resource and office management duties. She received her bachelor’s degree in finance from Virginia Union University in Richmond, Virginia, and is currently pursuing her Master’s Degree in Accounting from Strayer University in Maryland.
Prior to joining SeaWeb, Tyisha interned with the Grants Management and Resource Development division for the District of Columbia Department of Health.
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Julia Roberson
Julia Roberson is based in SeaWeb's London office and manages various projects for Seafood Choices Alliance, a global trade association for ocean-friendly seafood. She also works on SeaWeb's Too Precious to Wear campaign, which is partnering with jewelry and fashion designers to create a demand for coral conservation. The campaign aims to provide greater protection for corals and reefs on the national and international level through the Coral Reef Conservation Act and the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES). Roberson coordinated SeaWeb's caviar campaigns, L'Autre Caviar ("The Other Caviar") and Caviar Emptor. The campaigns were active in the US and France, the largest caviar-consuming markets in the world. In 2005 Caviar Emptor achieved a US ban on all beluga sturgeon products after successfully petitioning the Fish and Wildlife Service to list the threatened fish under the Endangered Species Act. Both campaigns achieved an international ban on most wild caviar in 2006. Roberson also opened SeaWeb's London and Paris offices and has coordinated research efforts in Russia and Alaska.
Before joining SeaWeb she worked at Euromoney magazine in London. She received her B.A. in English and Communications from Appalachian State University
Melanie Siggs
Melanie Siggs joined Seafood Choices Alliance in September 2006 to lead the development of the UK programme. Her background is in the corporate sector, predominantly concerned with natural resources such as agriculture, forestry and food. She has worked in a number of different countries including a period working in partnership with FAO(UN) Fisheries developing international trade meetings in Europe, Japan, Russia and Indonesia. More recently, Siggs was Head of Communications for Finnish group UPM-Kymmene, one of the world’s largest forest products groups and acting Head of Corporate Affairs for Australian company Global Renewables, working on a successful £2.5bn PFI (private finance intiative) resource recovery contract bid. She brings to the team a breadth of business experience, strong skills in strategic positioning and corporate affairs, as well as a personal passion for responsible business; she recently received a Masters degree in Responsibilty and Business Practice.
Farley Lord Smith
Farley supports SeaWeb’s administration through fundraising, research and assistance to the President. Farley graduated from Birmingham-Southern College with a bachelor’s degree in French and a minor in Environmental Studies. Her education provided a broad overview of environmental conservation, including ecology, public policy, economics, ethics and international sustainable development. Farley spent a semester in Paris as an intern at the French Ministry of Ecology and Sustainable Development and has also completed internships at the Alabama Rivers Alliance, the Smithsonian Global Species Address Book Project and Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. Farley is a trained singer, ballet dancer and actress.
Elisabeth Vallet,
Elisabeth joined the Seafood Choice Alliance in October 2006 to work with industry leaders and NGOs across continental Europe to increase the market for sustainable seafood. Elisabeth comes from a communications, policy and trade association background. She spent nine years as the Communications and Project Manager of the European Council of Young Farmers, an association based in Brussels that represents young farmers throughout the EU member States. In that role, she worked with private industry, policymakers, consumers, NGOs and other associations. She implemented a pan-European educational project, which aimed to raise the awareness of schoolchildren concerning European agriculture. Most recently, Elisabeth worked for the European Commission at DG Environment. Before her Brussels work, she helped to establish a trade association on biofuels in France.
Reuven Walder
Reuven Walder directs SeaWeb's Marine PhotoBank Program which works to advance ocean conservation by collecting and providing compelling images and educational materials that visually alert audiences to the threats and challenges facing our ocean. He has grown a vast library of photos developing a global network of photographers who contribute who provide their images for free to organizations, educational institutions, agencies, media and the public.
Walder has more than 16 years experience in research and restoration efforts focused on the recovery of sensitive species and their habitat in regions spanning from the Canadian Arctic to Baja California. Throughout his career, Walder has combined his scientific and conservation background to provide vital information and knowledge to agencies and the community. Before joining SeaWeb, Walder spent four years with Turtle Island Restoration Network in California working to protect sensitive watershed and ocean ecosystems.
He has a Master of Science in Marine Ecology from Moss Landing Marine Laboratories and an undergraduate degree in Marine Biology and Zoology from Humboldt State University in California.
Matthew Wright
As Outreach Specialist for SeaWeb’s COMPASS program (Communication Partnership for Science and the Sea), Matthew works to raise the profile of ocean science and conservation issues. He helps scientists communicate the meaning of their science to the wider world, and connects these experts with journalists who want to know the latest in marine conservation. In collaboration with his COMPASS teammates, he helps catalyze relationships to bridge gaps between scientists, journalists and policy makers. Matthew holds a Master’s degree in Marine Science from Arizona State University, where he studied sea snails that are adapted to survive sudden and extreme shifts in temperature. He also has a Graduate Certificate in Science Communication from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and held several science-writing internships at Stanford University. Prior to joining SeaWeb/COMPASS, Matthew worked as a science writer for the Carnegie Institution of Washington in Washington, D.C.
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