{"id":75,"date":"2021-02-17T15:50:48","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T15:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/ecologyplus\/?page_id=75"},"modified":"2023-09-28T18:59:10","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T18:59:10","slug":"partners","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/ecologyplus\/partners\/","title":{"rendered":"Partners"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content-header\">\n<h2>Participating Partners<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"contentpaneopen\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"grid\">\n<div class=\"col span6\">\n<h3>\u00a0Steering Committee Members<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Teresa Mourad,<\/strong>\u00a0Principal\u00a0Investigator, Director of Education and Diversity Programs, Ecological Society of America<\/p>\n<p><strong>George Middendorf,<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Ph.D.,<\/strong>\u00a0co-Investigator, Professor Howard University<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fred Abbott,<\/strong>\u00a0Diversity Programs Manager, Ecological Society of America<\/p>\n<p><b>Travis Belote<\/b><strong>, Ph.D.,<\/strong>\u00a0Research Ecologist, The Wilderness Society<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kevin Bryan<\/strong>, Principal, Equnival Partners<\/p>\n<p><b>Danny Filer, Ed.D.,<\/b>\u00a0Chesapeake Watershed Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit Research Coordinator, National Park Service.<\/p>\n<p><b>Thomas E. Fish, Ph.D.,\u00a0<\/b>National Coordinator, Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Units Network, U.S. Department of the Interior.<\/p>\n<p><b>Quintaniay Holifield, Ph.D.<\/b>, Research Soil Scientist. USDA Forest Service, Baltimore Field Station.<\/p>\n<p><b>George Liles,<\/b>\u00a0Acting Director of Academic Programs for NOAA&#8217;s Northeast Fisheries Science Center, Curator of the NOAA Fisheries Woods Hole Science Aquarium, and Director of the Woods Hole Partnership Education Program (PEP).<\/p>\n<p><b>Laura Oremland<\/b>, Fish and Wildlife Administrator, NOAA Fisheries Office of Science and Technology.<\/p>\n<p><b>Michelle Nelson<\/b>, Community Garden Program Manager, Montgomery County Parks.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jessica Sanders, Ph.D., <\/b>Sacrament Tree Foundation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wanjiru Gathira<\/strong>, Senior Director of Global Equity, Diversity &amp; Inclusion, Conservation International<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jessica Pratt Miles<\/strong>, Partner, Meridian Institute<\/p>\n<h2>Past Steering Committee Members<\/h2>\n<p><strong>2017-2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b>Joan Berkowitz<\/b><strong>, Ph.D.,<\/strong> University of Maryland University College Graduate School of Management and Technology<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Robert Javonillo<\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Biology, Morgan State University<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jorge Ramos, Ph.D.<\/strong>, Stanford University, previously Conservation International<\/p>\n<p><strong>2017-2022<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b>David Blockstein, Ph.D.,<\/b>\u00a0Senior Adviser,\u00a0Association for Environmental Sciences and Studies<\/p>\n<p><b>Eric R. Coffman, CEM, CEP,CPM, LEED-AP,<\/b>\u00a0Director of Energy Programs, Maryland Energy Administration<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kwanza Johnson<\/strong>, Academic Programs Coordinator of Northeast Fisheries Science Center\u00a0at NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service<\/p>\n<p><strong>Marielena Octavia<\/strong>, Mediator, Meridian<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Participating Partners \u00a0Steering Committee Members Teresa Mourad,\u00a0Principal\u00a0Investigator, Director of Education and Diversity Programs, Ecological Society of America George Middendorf,\u00a0Ph.D.,\u00a0co-Investigator, Professor Howard University Fred Abbott,\u00a0Diversity Programs Manager, Ecological Society of America Travis Belote, Ph.D.,\u00a0Research Ecologist, The Wilderness Society Kevin Bryan, Principal, Equnival Partners Danny Filer, Ed.D.,\u00a0Chesapeake Watershed Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit Research Coordinator, National Park Service. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/ecologyplus\/partners\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Partners&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":97,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-75","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/ecologyplus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/ecologyplus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/ecologyplus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/ecologyplus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/ecologyplus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/ecologyplus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1471,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/ecologyplus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/75\/revisions\/1471"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/ecologyplus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/ecologyplus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}