Category: Speakers

Animal Keeper, American Trail

Chelsea Grubb has been a zookeeper for 11 years. For the last five years, she has worked at the National Zoo on American Trail. She has worked with all different kinds of animals throughout her career including elephants, pinnipeds, free flight bird shows, domestics, and small mammals. She is the Chair of the Zoo’s Enrichment and Training Committee, serves on the Zoo’s animal welfare committee, and coordinates the zookeeper internship program for American Trail.

 

Judy and John W. McCarter, Jr. Global Health Veterinary Intern, Smithsonian’s Global Health Program

Dr. Jennifer Kishbaugh is the Judy and John W. McCarter, Jr. Global Health Veterinary Intern with the Smithsonian’s Global Health Program. Dr. Kishbaugh is a graduate of Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine, where she worked in field conservation research with Leatherback sea turtles and African wildlife, including rhinoceros, giraffe, crocodile, and numerous antelope species. She went on to complete her clinical training at Cornell and an internship at a specialty clinic on Long Island. Most recently, Dr. Kishbaugh worked in small animal emergency medicine, assisting New York State wildlife rehabilitation groups.

 

Bird House Keeper

Jordana has been working in the animal care industry for 6 years and has been with Smithsonian’s National Zoological Park Bird house for almost 2 years. Jordana has had the opportunity to work with a variety of animals but her passion is birds. She loves my job as an Animal Keeper as it allows her to not only provide top notch care to our animals but also assist in conservation efforts to help save species all over the world.

 

University of Maryland and Smithsonian’s National Zoo

Megan Brown is a Doctoral Student at University of Maryland working with Avian Reproductive Biology focusing primarily on the Whooping Crane. Brown completed her Master’s degree at the same university and received her Bachelor’s degree from Delaware Valley College in 2010 with a degree in Zoo Science. Currently she is working at Patuxent Wildlife Research Center in Maryland as a volunteer helping to raise Whooping Crane Chicks for release. Brown hopes that after completing her PhD she will continue to work in the zoo community with endangered bird species, focusing on captive management and reproduction.

 

Animal Keeper, Asia Trail-Giant Pandas

Stacey Tabellario began her career as a wildlife filmmaker working for the Discovery Channel, the Jane Goodall Institute, and the Smithsonian Institution. She had the opportunity to track and observe many animals in their natural habitats as well as meet the people whose daily lives are affected by our choices in conservation. Eventually she realized that she felt most fulfilled on the days she worked closest with the animals, so she packed up the camera and used what she had learned from years of observing animals and working with world renowned scientists to become an animal keeper. She is currently an animal keeper and the chair of the enrichment and training committee at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo. In addition to enrichment & training, Stacey is particularly interested in adding choice and control back into the lives of animals in human care.

Founder & President, the Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development

Durwood Zaelke is founder and President of the Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development (IGSD) in Washington, DC and Geneva; Director of the Secretariat for the International Network for Environmental Compliance & Enforcement (INECE) in Washington, DC and Geneva; and the co-Director and co-founder of the Program on Governance for Sustainable Development at the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, University of California, Santa Barbara.

He is the author of the leading law school textbook on International Environmental Law & Policy, as well as a paper with Nobel Laureate, Dr. Mario Molina, as part a Special Feature on climate tipping points, Reducing abrupt climate change risk using the Montreal Protocol and other regulatory actions to complement cuts in CO2 emissions, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (US) (2009). He is a graduate of Duke Law School (1972), where he was an Editor of the Duke Law Journal, and UCLA (1969), and a member of the bar in California, Washington, DC, and Alaska. Mr. Zaelke received both an Ozone Protection Award and a Climate Protection Award in 2008 for his contribution to the successful effort to maximize the climate benefits of the Montreal Protocol. He was a leading architect of the effort to strengthen climate protection under the Montreal Protocol, including through the 2007 decision to accelerate the phase-out of HCFCs, and the October 2016 amendment to phase-down HFCs, the fastest climate pollutants, know as the Kigali Amendment, which will avoid up to 0.5C of future warming, and perhaps twice that if the energy efficiency of air conditioners and other products and equipment is improved during their switch to climate friendly refrigerants.

Mr. Zaelke currently directs IGSD’s efforts on fast-action climate mitigation strategies including: reducing short-lived climate forcers (black carbon, ground-level ozone, and methane); expanding biosequestration through the use of biochar; increasing urban albedo; and further strengthening the Montreal Protocol to protect the climate by phasing out production and consumption of HFCs with high global warming potential.