Leadership Team
The Boston Birding Festival is an all-volunteer nonprofit organization.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Officers
Elizabeth Bartle, Chair
Kirsten Bjerklie, Treasurer
Ellen Curren, Vice Chair
Donna Deangelis, Clerk
Mari Badger, Festival Director
Emily Conklin
Sonya Khan
Susan Shapiro
Calvin Yang
PLanning Commitee
The Festival Planning Committee plays a vital role in helping to create Festival programming.
COMING SOON
PROGRAM PARTNERS
The Festival collaborates with conservation, environmental and culture leaders to create programming. Individual Program Partners for each even are listed on those pages.
COMING SOON
SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY COuncil
We are grateful for the participation and ongoing support and advice of our Scientific Advisory Council members.
Scott Edwards
Professor and Chair of the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology: Curator of Ornithology and Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University
Francesca Grifo
State Director, Maryland Ornithological Society: Founding Director of the Scientific Integrity Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists; and former director of the Center for Biodiversity Conservation at the American Museum of Natural History
Nigella Hillgarth
Evolutionary Biologist, Conservation Photographer, and Affiliate Professor at the University of Washington
Susannah B. Lerman
Research Ecologist, USDA Forest Service
Wayne Petersen, Director, Massachusetts Important Bird Area (IBA) Program Mass Audubon (retired); Editor/co-author of MA Breeding Bird Atlas 1 & 2, Birds of Massachusetts, and Field Guide to Birds of Massachusetts; Advisory Council of Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary and Natural Heritage & Endangered Species Program
Andrew Vitz
State Ornithologist, Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife
ADVISORY Council
To be announced.
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