SUSTAINING CULTURAL AND BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY Symposium Speakers and Panelists Sulemana Abudulai, Anthropologist/Land Economists, Advisor, African Biodiversity Network, Ghana Glenn Albrecht, Associate Professor, Environmental Studies, Discipline of Geography and Environmental Studies, School of Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Newcastle, Australia Clarence Alexander, Chairman, Yukon River Inter-Tribal Watershed Council, Fort Yukon, Alaska, US Evelyn Arce-White, Executive Director, International Funders for Indigenous Peoples, Akwesasne, New York, US Alejandro Argumedo, Founding Member and Co-Chair, Call of the Earth Steering Committee, Cusco, Peru Kamaljit S. Bawa, Distinguished Professor of Biology, University of Massachusetts, Boston, US, and Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, India Million Belay, Director, MELCA (Movement for Ecological Living and Community Action) and Coordinator, Cultural Biodiversity Thematic Area, African Biodiversity Network, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Robert Bino, Ph.D. Candidate, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia David Boseto, Community Engagement Officer, Solomon Islands Community Conservation Partnership, Solomon Islands J. Peter Brosius, Professor, Ecological and Environmental Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, US Steven Brush, Professor, Human and Community Development, University of California at Davis, Davis, California, US Julie Burstein, Public Radio International and WNYC Radio, New York, New York, US Nora Bynum, Project Director, Network of Conservation Educators and Practitioners, and Associate Director for Capacity Development, Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, US Sophie Caillon, Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France Jeffrey Campbell, Senior Program Officer, Environment & Development, Ford Foundation, New York, New York, US Adrian Cerezo, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, New Haven, Connecticut, US Avecita Chicchón, Director - Latin America and Caribbean Program, Wildlife Conservation Society, Bronx, New York, US Nigel Crawhall, Director of Secretariat, Indigenous Peoples of Africa Coordinating Committee (IPACC), Cape Town, South Africa Eve Crowley, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Rome, Italy Strachan Donnelley, President, Center for Humans and Nature, New York, New York, US Michael Dove, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, New Haven, Connecticut, US Margaret Florey, Senior Lecturer, Linguistics Program, School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, Monash University, Victoria, Australia Gustavo Fonseca, Head, Natural Resources Section, Global Environment Facility, Washington, DC, US Violet Ford, Executive Council Member and Vice President, International Affairs, Inuit Circumpolar Council, Canada (invited) Crystal Fortwangler, Department of Environmental Science, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, New York, US Michael J. Foster, Biodiversity Specialist, Enhancing Diversity in Conservation Science Initiative, Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, US Tonya Gonnella Frichner, (Onondaga Nation), North American Regional Representative to the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, New York, New York, US Ellen V. Futter, President, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, US Terry Garcia, Executive Vice President, Missions Programs, National Geographic Society (invited) Murray Garde, Australian Research Council Linkage Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Languages and Linguistics, University of Melbourne, Australia Tonya Gonnella-Frichner, Vice-Chairperson, American Indian Law Alliance, New York, New York, US Larry Gorenflo, Conservation International, Washington, DC, US Dana Graef, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, New Haven, Connecticut, US Brent Haglund, President, Sand County Foundation, Monona, Wisconsin, US Preston Hardison, Tulalip Tribes, Washington State, US David Harmon, Executive Director, The George Wright Society, US Terence Hay-Edie, Program Officer, Small Grants Programme, UNDP-GEF Anne Henshaw, Marine Program Officer for North America, Oak Foundation, Portland, Maine, US Philip Hogan, Central Coast Planning Analyst, Ecotrust Canada, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Elizabeth Johnson, Metropolitan Program Manager, Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, US Kewulay Kamara, Professor African-American Studies, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, New York, New York, US Alphonse Kambu, Director, Ishikawa International Cooperation Research Centre, United Nations University, Kanazawa, Japan (invited) Ursula King, Climate Change Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Australia Scott Kekuewa Kikiloi, Cultural Assets Manager, Kamehameha Schools, Honolulu, Hawai'i, US Ashish Kothari, Member, Kalpavriksh Environmental Action Group and Co-Chair, IUCN Theme on Indigenous/Local Communities, Equity, and Protected Areas, Pune, India Myanna Lahsen, Research Scientist, University of Colorado’s Center for Science and Technology Policy Research and Science Officer for Social Sciences for the Brazilian Regional Office of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP), São Jose dos Campos, Brazil Dana Lanza, Executive Director, Environmental Grantmakers Association, New York, New York, US Victoria Lee, Community Medicine Program, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada Victoria E.H. Lee, University of Toronto Yih-Ren Lin, Director of Research Centre for Austronesian Peoples, and Assistant Professor, Department of Ecology, Providence University, Taichung, Taiwan Micah Loma'omvaya, Archaeology/Ethnohistory Program Manager, Hopi Cultural Preservation Office, Kykotsmovi. Arizona, US Dominique Louette, National Council on the Environment, Ministry of the Environment, Brazil Jonathan Loh, Research Associate, Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, UK Kenneth Iain MacDonald, Department of Geography, Program in International Development Studies, Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies, University of Toronto, Canada Brendan Mackey, Professor, Fenner School of Environment and Society, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia Luisa Maffi, Director, Terralingua, British Columbia, Canada Josh Mailman, Founder, Mailman Foundation, New York, New York, US Michael Mascia, Senior Program Officer/Social Scientist, World Wildlife Fund, Washington, DC, US Steven McCormick, President, Moore Foundation Aroha Te Pareake Mead, Senior Lecturer in Maori Business, Victoria University of Wellington, and Senior Research Fellow, Centre of Environmental Law, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia Tero Mustonen, The Snowchange Cooperative, Finland Gary Paul Nabhan, Founder, Renewing Americas Food Traditions, Southwest Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, US Michael J. Novacek, Senior Vice President and Provost of Science, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, US Noel Oettlé, Environmental Monitoring Group, Nieuwoudtville, South Africa Christine Padoch, Matthew Calbraith Perry Curator of Economic Botany, Institute of Economic Botany, International Plant Science Center, The New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, New York, US Dipak Pant, Professor, Interdisciplinary Unit for Sustainable Economy, Universita Carlo Cataneo, Italy Jeanine Pfeiffer, Program Director for Social Science, Earthwatch Institute, Maynard, Massachusetts, US Michel Pimbert, Director, Sustainable Agriculture, Biodiversity and Livelihoods Programme , International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), London, UK Miguel Pinedo-Vázquez, Associate Research Scientist, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University, New York, New York, US Jules Pretty, Professor of Environment and Society, University of Essex, UK Nitin Rai, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, Bangalore, India David Rapport, Principal, EcoHealth Consulting, Canada Kent Redford, Director, Wildlife Conservation Society Institute and Vice President, Conservation Strategy, Wildlife Conservation Society, Bronx, New York, US Laura Rival, University Lecturer in Ecological Anthropology and Development, School of Social Anthropology, Oxford University, Oxford, UK Rochelle Roca Hachem, Programme Specialist for Culture, UNESCO, New York, New York, US Cynthia Rosenzweig, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, New York, US Julie Velásquez Runk, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, US Chie “Siqiniq” Sakakibara, Lecturer, Native American Studies, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, US Vyacheslav Shadrin, Head, Yukaghir Elders Council Ashbindu Singh, Regional Coordinator, UNEP Division of Early Warning and Assessment- North America, Washington, DC, US James Stauch, Programme Manager, Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation, Toronto, Canada John Richard Stepp, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Latin American Studies, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, US Rhea Suh, Program Officer, Conservation & Science, David & Lucile Packard Foundation, Los Altos, California, US Sian Sullivan, Lecturer in Environment and Development, School of Development, University of East Anglia, UK Eleanor Sterling, Director, Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, US Juanita Sundberg, Assistant Professor, Latin American Studies, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, Canada Luci Tapahonso, Navajo Poet and Professor of American Indian Studies and English, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, US Sheri Tatsch, Native American Studies, UC Davis, Davis, California, US Yolanda Terán, Regional Coordinator for Latin America and the Caribbean, Indicators Group, Ecuador Terence Turner, Professor of Anthropology (Retired), Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US Bhaskar Vira, University Senior Lecturer and Fellow of Fitzwilliam College , Director of Undergraduate Studies, University of Cambridge, UK Alaka Wali, Nuveen Curator in Anthropology and Director, Center for Cultural Understanding and Change, The Field Museum, Chicago, Illinois, US Jon Waterhouse, Director, Yukon River Inter-Tribal Watershed Council, Fairbanks, Alaska, US Sarah Weiss, Assistant Professor, Department of Music, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, US Paige West, Assistant Professor , Department of Anthropology, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, New York, US Amber Nämaka Whitehead, Ecologist, Kamehameha Schools, Honolulu, Hawai'i, US Peter Whiteley, Curator, Department of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, US Ellen Wiegandt, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland Ken Wilson, Executive Director, The Christensen Fund Rosita Worl, President, Sealaska Heritage Institute, Juneau, Alaska, US Stanford Zent, Center for Anthropology, Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research, Caracas, Venezuela Charles Zerner, Cohn Professor of Environmental Studies, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York, US |
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