Defenders of Wildlife Blog

Authors

Meet the current authors…

	Jamie Rappaport Clark is the President and CEO of Defenders of Wildlife and the former head of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
	Joel Sartore is a contributing photographer to National Geographic and a member of Defenders’ board of directors. To see more of his work, visit www.joelsartore.com.
	Cindy Hoffman is Vice President of Communications for Defenders of Wildlife and a former senior public affairs specialist at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. She has worked extensively on conservation issues including endangered species, national wildlife refuges and migratory waterfowl.
	Krista Schlyer is a frequent contributor to Defenders magazine and a member of the International League of Conservation Photographers.
	Brian Bovard is a Communications Coordinator at Defenders of Wildlife and an avid environmentalist.
	Dr. J. Christopher Haney is the chief scientist at Defenders of Wildlife and has worked on marine wildlife, biological oceanography and oil spills for over 25 years.
	John Motsinger is a Communications Associate at Defenders of Wildlife. He handles press coverage for critters in the Northern Rockies as well as Defenders’ national work on coal ash and pesticides.
	Nilanga Jayasinghe is the coordinator for Field Conservation Programs at Defenders of Wildlife.
	Mike Leahy is the Rocky Mountain Regional Director for Defenders of Wildlife. Mike oversees Defenders’ work throughout the Rocky Mountain Region, which emphasizes recovery of wolves, grizzly bears, wolverine, lynx, fisher, black-footed ferrets, prairie dogs, grassland ecosystems.
	Suzanne Asha Stone is the Northern Rockies Representative for Defenders of Wildlife. Suzanne has worked in wolf restoration in the northern Rockies since 1988, including serving as a member of the 1995/1996 USA/Canadian wolf reintroduction team. She currently oversees Defender’s programs for wolf conservation and restoration in Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming.
	Lacy Gray is the Rocky Mountain Region Coordinator for Defenders of Wildlife based in Bozeman, MT.
	Erin Edge is the Bear Aware Coordinator for Defenders of Wildlife. Erin is working to reduce human-related grizzly bear mortalities in the Northern Rockies. Her work includes working closely with landowners to identify and secure anthropogenic food resources on the landscape, thereby minimizing bear-human conflicts and mortalities.
	Matt Clark is the Southwest Representative for Defenders of Wildlife. Matt is responsible for representing and promoting Defenders in the Southwest and achieving regional conservation successes through strategic project development and implementation, education, research and advocacy. He works on state and regional conservation programs and their interface with national and international programs and policies, with a focus on Sonoran Desert and Sky Island conservation.
	Pelayo Alvarez works as the Conservation Program Director for the California Rangeland Conservation Coalition. Together with the Rangeland Conservation Director he works to protect and restore grasslands and oak woodlands in the California Central Valley. Pelayo is responsible for facilitating conservation projects in private ranches and promoting research and outreach to demonstrate the environmental and economic benefits of rangeland conservation.
	Noah Matson is the Vice President for Climate Change and Natural Resources Adaptation. Noah directs Defenders’ effort to create and implement policies and strategies to safeguard wildlife and habitat from the impacts of global warming. Working with a team of scientists, policy experts, attorneys, and communications specialists, Noah is developing climate change adaptation strategies for land and wildlife managers, and is working to influence climate change adaptation policies in federal agencies.
	Karla Duttonis the Alaska Program Director for Defenders of Wildlife. Karla directs the work of Defenders’ Alaska field program team. Since joining Defenders in September 2006, Karla has expanded the Alaska program from a major ongoing effort to reverse the State’s intensive predator control programs for wolves and bears and ecosystem level work to protect wildlife habitat in refuges and national forests to developing broader programs and strategic partnerships. The Alaska office is focusing increasingly on initiatives on climate change and the related habitat impacts on polar bears.
	Eva Sargentis the Southwest Program Director for Defenders of Wildlife, operating out of Tucson, Arizona. Eva’s areas of expertise include: Southwest conservation issues, reintroduction programs, Mexican wolves, and Thick-billed parrots. Since joining Defenders in 2005, Eva has concentrated on strengthening and promoting these diverse programs, so that Defenders can “do more with more.” She has brought a fresh perspective, gained in international conservation, to our work on U.S. species, including the jaguar, Mexican wolf, and cactus ferruginous pygmy owl.
	Theresa Fiorinois the Alaska Representative for Defenders of Wildlife. Key aspects of Theresa’s work focus on securing sound scientific management of Alaska’s wildlife. This effort includes working on federal lands issues such as ensuring the continued protection of National Wildlife Refuges from developmental threats, and preventing expansion of the State’s predator control programs onto federal lands. Theresa is also working to strengthen relationships with Alaska Natives, and continues Defenders’ work promoting the protection of Alaska’s wolves and bears from aerial gunning as well as other threats to their conservation.
	Julie Kates is the Refuge Associate, Federal Lands Program for Defenders of Wildlife. Julie focuses on developing and implementing programs to enhance the conservation of biodiversity within the National Wildlife Refuge System, as well as supporting Defenders’ climate change adaptation work on federal lands.
	Allison Barra Srinivas, is the Conservation Policy Coordinator for Defenders of Wildlife. Alli works on a variety of issues for Defenders’ conservation policy program including federal lands policy and conservation planning. She is a recent graduate of the University of Maryland School of Public Policy, where she received her Masters, and has a special interest in habitat conservation and agriculture policy.
	Heidi Ridgley is editor of Defenders Magazine.
	Addie Haughey is the Federal Lands Associate for Defenders of Wildlife. Addie works within Defenders’ Federal Lands Program in Washington, DC to advocate for wildlife on our National Forests and on other public lands. Her work ranges from advocacy within individual plans and projects to ensure strong wildlife protections on the ground, to advancing national level policy for wildlife protection throughout the country.
	Peter Nelson is the Director of the Federal Lands Program for Defenders of Wildlife. Peter leads Defenders’ efforts to protect wildlife habitat and biodiversity on federal public lands. He is responsible for managing Defenders’ programs to bolster and defend the National Wildlife Refuge System as a premier set of lands for wildlife conservation, and to expand and enhance Defenders’ work to increase wildlife protections on USDA Forest Service national forests and grasslands, and Bureau of Land Management lands.