Washington, DC – The Endangered Species Coalition Board of Administrators is happy to announce the choice of Susan Holmes, a pacesetter in coalition construction and natural world advocacy, as the brand new Government Director. Susan succeeds Leda Huta who served as Government Director from 2008-2023.
Susan Holmes brings over 25 years of revel in in natural world marketing campaign control and natural world coverage to the management of the Endangered Species Coalition. Earlier than becoming a member of the Endangered Species Coalition (ESC), Susan labored because the Flora and fauna Campaigns Director at Setting The united states. She has a confirmed file of excellence in designing and managing conservation campaigns, coalition construction and management, and fundraising. She additionally brings experience in protective natural world corridors and natural world connectivity. She led the Connectivity Coverage Coalition and performed crucial position in securing the primary devoted federal investment for natural world highway crossings. She in the past served at the board of the Endangered Species Coalition and has labored for the Wildlands Community, Save Our Wild Salmon Coalition, Earthjustice, the Sierra Membership, and the Harriman Institute at Columbia College. Susan won her BA from Dartmouth School and is a recipient of Dartmouth’s Nelson A. Rockefeller Prominent Public Provider Award.
“The Endangered Species Coalition has completed a huge quantity underneath Leda Huta’s management,” mentioned Julie Gorte, PhD, Endangered Species Board Chair. “It’s an honor to welcome every other chief in environmental coverage, Susan Holmes, to the position of Government Director. Susan has served the group because the board chair for a few years, and ESC may no longer be in higher arms.”
“I’m venerated to had been selected to steer the Endangered Species Coalition and to construct on its legacy of excellence in advocacy for our maximum susceptible species,” mentioned Susan Holmes. “In the USA, one in 5 species are vulnerable to extinction. With over 401 member teams devoted to protective at-risk natural world, ESC is a formidable voice at a vital time. My center of attention will probably be to fortify the devoted teams and people of our coalition and our body of workers who’re operating to save lots of our maximum endangered species — from wolves and grizzlies to monarch butterflies and proper whales.”
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