Douglas Bevington is the Forest Program Director for Environment Now, a grantmaking foundation in California. He holds a PhD in sociology from the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he taught courses on social movement studies. He is the author of "The Rebirth of Environmentalism: Grassroots Activism from the Spotted Owl to the Polar Bear" (Island Press, 2009), which explores how grassroots forest and wildlife protection groups have made a big impact on federal environmental policies in the U.S. over the past twenty years. His book profiles small, bold groups that have benefited from the support of the Fund for Wild Nature.

Thomas Bliss is a lifelong environmentalist. He is a partner at STRIKE ENTERTAINMENT. Recent films include Flash of Genius, Children of Men, Slither and Dawn of the Dead. Bliss also executive produced Spy Game, The Emperor's Club, Tuck Everlasting, Thirteen Days, The Family Man, End of Days, The Hurricane, Air Force One, Trippin', A Thousand Acres, Playing God, and The Baby-Sitters Club; and produced Bring It On Again, Bring It On, A Life in the Theatre, and Box of Moonlight. Bliss attended UCLA Film School, later returning to UCLA for a law degree. He has been honored with a Peabody Award, two Cable-ACE Awards, and an American Red Cross Humanities Service Medal. Bliss is a member of the Board of Governors of the Idyllwild School of Music and the Arts (one of only three residential arts academies in the United States), the Board of Trustees of the Directors Guild of America - Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers Training Program and the Board of Trustees of California Indian Legal Services. He is a member of the Directors Guild of America, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the State Bar of California.

Monica Bond is a wildlife biologist and biodiversity activist currently based in New Hampshire. 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 Senior Program Associate for Seventh Generation Adivsors. In this capacity, she is working to help create a national response to climate change by building state and local climate action plans. Previously, Ms. Haddad was the Forestry Project Manager for the Environment Now Foundation, Santa Monica, California, where she managed grant making and worked closely with forest activists on the development of strategy and the implementation of initiatives. Before joining Environment Now, she was the Programs Director at Santa Monica BayKeeper, where she ran the successful BeachKeeper Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring Program, as well as many other projects and programs. Ms. Haddad is the author of Crude Awakenings: Could an Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Happen in Southern California?, the findings of a three-year research project for Santa Monica BayKeeper that garnered significant attention from the media and state policymakers. In addition to her service on the Fund for Wild Nature board of directors, she is also a board member for Sequoia ForestKeeper, a nonprofit, grassroots organization whose mission is to protect the world's Giant Sequoias. Ms. Haddad holds a B.S. in social science from the University of California, Berkeley.

Mollie Matteson works for the protection and restoration of wild places, native ecosystems, and imperiled species in the Northeast. She grew up in Vermont, and went to college in Massachusetts and California before completing her undergraduate degree in zoology and masters degree in wildlife biology, both from the University of Montana. She has worked as a wilderness ranger in Washington, Wyoming, and Montana, and as an advocate for predators, wilderness, and the protection of public lands from the ravages of livestock grazing. From 2002 to 2007, she was on staff at Forest Watch in Vermont, where she helped with a successful campaign to establish new wilderness in the Green Mountain National Forest, worked to reduce off-road abuses on public lands, and advocated for landscape-scale conservation across the Northeast. Since 2008, she has been a conservation advocate with the Center for Biological Diversity in its Northeast office, and has been engaged with the protection of bats, lynx, Atlantic salmon, and other species. She has also worked as a writer, editor, environmental educator, and doula. She has two teenage children and is married to graphic designer Kevin Cross.

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 works on the research staff of the Stanford University Medical School. He is a past President of the Fund and has been on the Board since 1988. Dave is Secretary for the Fund.

Advisory Board

Jason Halbert is a Program Officer at the Oak Hill Fund, a foundation formed from the W. Alton Jones Foundation in Charlottesville, VA. He served as Grassroots Program Officer at Jones for two years. Prior to joining the Foundation, Jason was the coordinator of Heartwood's Appalachian Restoration Campaign. He has also worked in Washington, DC on forest policy issues.

Randy Hayes is Director of the US Liaison Office of World Future Council. He is on the Board of Directors of Rainforest Action Network, which he founded in 1985. He formerly served on the Board of Directors for the Fund for Wild Nature, which was an early supporter of RAN. Randy has also worked on environmental and sustainability issues for the cities of San Francisico and Oakland, CA.

Philip Krohn is a visual artist, forest activist and urban farmer. He is the founder and former director of Orlo in Portland, Oregon, an organization that produces arts programs focused on environmental issues. He is the founder and former editor of The Bear Deluxe environmental zine and founded and currently directs WOW (West Oakland Woods), an inner city micro farm and outdoor classroom. He has worked closely with several environmental groups doing timber sale monitoring and developing media campaigns.

Dr. Louise Leakey upholds the Leakey family legacy in the search for human origins through continuing research with the Turkana Basin Institute of northern Kenya. In appreciation of her African field explorations on human origins, The National Geographic Society has made Louise an "Explorer-in Residence." She is the daughter of world-famous paleoanthropologists Richard and Meave Leakey and granddaughter of Louis and Mary Leakey.

Terry Tamminen is the Executive Director and Founder of Seventh Generation Advisors. Terry also currently serves as an operating advisor for Pegasus Capital Advisors. Previously, Terry was the Secretary of California EPA; Executive Director of the Environment Now Foundation; and founder of the Santa Monica BayKeeper. He is the author of Lives Per Gallon: The True Cost of Our Oil Addiction.

Paul Watson is Founder and President of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. He has become internationally renowned for his daring, innovative and aggressive approach to the field of wildlife conservation.  He has been the captain of a succession of ships dedicated to the protection of the world's oceans and the creatures that inhabit them.