Fund for Wild Nature Board of Directors

Monica Bond is a wildlife biologist and biodiversity activist currently based in California. She is a 1993 graduate of the first year of Green Corps, the field school for environmental organizing, and was an Endangered Species Act grassroots organizer for the National Wildlife Federation from 1993-1996. Monica received her M.S. degree in Wildlife Science from the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife at Oregon State University in 1998. She conducted research on western burrowing owls in the Central Valley and California spotted owls in the Sierra Nevada before joining the staff of the Center for Biological Diversity in 2001 to 2006, where she worked primarily on fighting urban sprawl and protecting forests from damaging logging. In spring/summer 2006, Monica conducted a field study of post-fire use of forests by California spotted owls with the Institute for Bird Populations and in winter 2006-2007, she worked on the Farallon Islands National Wildlife Refuge off the coast of California researching northern elephant seals. She is presently working on forest protection and endangered species issues as a contractor with the Center for Biological Diversity and John Muir Project.

Tracy Davids is the Executive Director of Wild South, a non-profit organization working to inspire and empower citizens to protect and restore the native ecosystems of the Southeast. A graduate of Suffolk University Law School, Tracy has been an ardent advocate for the permanent protection of our federal public lands, endangered species, and ecological footprint reduction for over a decade. Her experience also includes the practice of civil law in Boston and volunteer board service for several local, regional, and national conservation organizations. Tracy lives in a solar powered home in Asheville, NC and spends her free time gardening, hiking, backpacking, and exploring the wilds of our great National Forests/Parks.

Marnie Gaede is a writer, editor, and publisher of numerous books and articles. For over fifteen years she has taught Environmental Issues at Art Center College of Design. Marnie has been involved with Sea Shepherd since 1989 and worked in support of numerous campaigns and publications. She served as a director of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society for two years and on the Board of Advisors to the Director of Duke University Primate Center. She has been a founding board member of Grizzly People since Timothy Treadwell's death in 2003. Marnie is President of the Fund.

Kristina Haddad is the Forest program manager for the Environment Now Foundation in Los Angeles. In this capacity she works with grass roots forest activists throughout the state on both private and public forest land issues. Previously she was the Programs Director at the Santa Monica BayKeeper in Southern California. She was appointed by the State of California to serve as an environmental representative on the Los Angeles/Long Beach Harbor Safety Committee and is currently a Board Member for the Sequoia ForestKeeper. She is the author of the expose "Crude Awakenings: Could the Exxon Valdez Happen in Southern California" which garnered significant attention from the media and state policy makers. Kristina is also an accomplished writer, poet, and performer and has appeared in dozens of plays in the Los Angeles area including her one person environmentally themed show "Save Sheldon!!!" A native of San Francisco, Kristina enjoys yoga, cooking, writing poetry, music, running, hiking, traveling, and learning foreign languages. Kristina holds a B.S. from the University of California, Berkeley in the Social Sciences. 

Mary Anne Hitt is the Executive Director of Appalachian Voices, a regional nonprofit organization working to protect the natural and cultural heritage of the central and southern Appalachian Mountains. Her previous experience includes working as executive director of both The Ecology Center (based in Missoula, Montana) and the Southern Appalachian Biodiversity Project (based in Asheville, North Carolina). She received her M.S. in environmental studies from the University of Montana and her bachelor's degree in environmental science and policy from the University of Tennessee. She lives in Blacksburg, Virginia, where she spends her free time gardening, canoeing, and playing music.

Spencer Lennard is a wildlife and forest activist and was instrumental in Oregon's successful campaign to protect black bears and cougars against unethical "hunting" practices in 1993. He founded the Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center (KS Wild) in 1997 and served as its Executive Director until 2004. In recent years he founded both Big Wildlife, an advocacy project for top-carnivore species, and Rogue Advocates, working on landuse issues in southwest Oregon. Spencer is an avid hiker, rockclimber and mountaineer and spends as much time as possible rambling in the high country of the Siskiyou mountains.

Dave Parks, Ph.D., has been involved in ecological and political activism since the Vietnam War, including work with Central American solidarity groups, Earth First!, and the Rainforest Action Network. He holds a Ph.D. in physics and worked on the research staff of the Stanford Medical School. He is a past President of the Fund and has been on the Board since 1988. Dave is Secretary for the Fund.

Kevin Walker has been active on public lands issues for nearly 20 years. While working for the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance he coordinated a comprehensive inventory of over 9 million acres of BLM (de facto) wilderness. He currently works as a research mathematician, specializing in topological quantum field theories. He's particularly fond of long backpacking trips in very hot weather.

Fund for Wild Nature Advisory Board: Jason Halbert, Randy Hayse, Philip Krohn, Louise Leakey, Terry Tamminen, Paul Watson.