Joined: May 23 2010

Ruby Mendones

Job Title: Communications Specialist

I knew I was a conservationist when:

I set out to work on my graduate thesis: Critical Factors to Consider in Establishing a Plant Rescue Center. It changed my perspectives about sustainable development especially at how people both affect and influence the natural resource base.

Joined: May 12 2010

Katie Heffner

Job Title: Conservation and Social Enterprise Fellow in Social Marketing

Organizations: Rare

I knew I was a conservationist when:

I first watched Dr. John McCosker on a National Geographic video.

Joined: Feb 10 2010

Stuart Green

Job Title: Director, Philippines, PEP

Role: Course Manager (PPM), Rare Staff (RS)

Organizations: Rare

I knew I was a conservationist when: I joined my first dynamite fishing trip to the North of Bohol, Philippines (my home in 1995) in a place called the Danajon Bank and watched literally everything blown up by a group of poor fishers (poor literally and educationally) - dynamiting was their "livelihood" and back then there was very little stigma associated with dynamite fishing and they were in fact very proud and macho dynamiters! After seeing that I realized it wasn't so much that these people were "bad", they were just doing what they knew best - but it did tell me the whole "system" was wrong and there was lots for me to do.. I still haven't left 15 years on and there is still lot's to do!

Joined: Oct 15 2009

Winthrop Morgan

Job Title: Social Marketer & Strategic Communication Advisor