Melissa Hopkins, Interim Co-Director, coordinates all TogetherGreen programs, oversees the measurement and evaluation of the program, and helps coordinate the program's nationwide volunteer engagement efforts. Prior to joining Audubon in 2007, Melissa worked at Discovery Creek Children’s Museum, where she initiated the organization’s first comprehensive evaluation of its programs, and American Rivers, where she was responsible for managing the organization’s foundation portfolio. Melissa has a B.A. from Franklin and Marshall College, and an M.S. from the University of Michigan’s School of Natural Resources and Environment, where she conducted research on urban parks in Detroit, MI.

Favorite wildlife moment: Spotting her first fish eagle in Botswana
What I wanted to be when I was little: Jane Goodall's research assistant
Extracurricular activity that would surprise people: Flamenco.

Contact: Washington, D.C., 202.600.7974, mhopkins@audubon.org

Elizabeth Sorrell, Communications Associate, supports communications efforts for TogetherGreen, bringing with her a plethora of experience in social media. Prior to joining Audubon, Elizabeth spent over four years at The Karpel Group, a boutique PR marketing firm specializing in outreach to LGBT audiences and grassroots campaigns, where she was responsible for a variety of clients, including MTV, Paramount, and Henson Alternative. She holds a B.F.A. in Playwriting from Northern Kentucky University, where she was awarded the Women's Studies Creative Writing Award twice. In 2010, she co-founded the online sustainability magazine ImpactDash.

Favorite Outdoor Space: Tie – Cincinnati Nature Center & McCarren Park in Brooklyn.
Favorite wildlife moment: Meeting Jax, a Dolphin who lost his dorsal fin and half his tail in a shark attack, but hasn’t let that slow him down.
Extracurricular activity that would surprise people: Bowling

Contact: New York, NY, 212.979.3185, esorrell@audubon.org

Brenda Timm, Senior Communications Manager, oversees the communications efforts for TogetherGreen. Prior to joining Audubon, Brenda spent nearly a decade at Edelman Public Relations growing the agency's Corporate Social Responsibility practice in New York. She holds a B.A. in English from Binghamton University. She is a graduate of Columbia University’s Center for Environmental Research and Conservation Conservation Biology certificate program.

Environmental hero: Rosalie Edge for proving it's never too late to protect nature.
What did you want to be when you were little: A veterinarian
Extracurricular activity that would surprise people: Karaoke

Contact: New York, NY, 212.979.3198, btimm@audubon.org

Anne Ferguson, Program Coordinator, works on facilitating professional development opportunities and compiling best practices for the TogetherGreen network. Before joining Audubon, Anne spent over four years at the Field Museum, where she was an outreach specialist working in rural Amazonian communities in Bolivia. She was first inspired to work in community-based conservation in Ecuador, where she was a natural resources Peace Corps Volunteer. She has a B.S. in Biology from the University of Miami. Anne lives in Bangkok, Thailand, with her husband and dog. 

Environmental Hero: My Dad. He’s been an “arm-chair environmentalist” before it was even defined. I love his pragmatic approach to being green and consuming less. 
Extracurricular activity that would surprise people: I advise and volunteer for a small Filipino non-profit that sends kids to school in my mother’s home town. 
Favorite wildlife moment: Snorkeling with manatees in Crystal River, Florida. 

Contact: aferguson@audubon.org 

Chuck Remington, Interim Leader of Audubon's Education & Centers division, provides strategic advice across the TogetherGreen program and coordinates TogetherGreen's nationwide volunteer initiative at 40 sites annually designed to recruit and retain new volunteers to assist in wildlife and habitat protection projects, education, scientific research, and conservation work.

Chuck is the National Audubon Society's Director of Field Support for Education & Centers. His career in environmental education spans 21 years and includes:  volunteer educator at the New England Aquarium in Boston, education manager at the San Diego Zoo, and curator of education at the Aquarium of the Americas in New Orleans. In 1998 he became Audubon New York's first director of education, and led the team that opened Audubon's first urban nature center in the country in Brooklyn, NY. In his current position at National Audubon he serves the nineteen Audubon Centers east of the Mississippi and aids them in program development, staff/volunteer training, marketing, outreach to underserved audiences, fundraising, exhibit and interpretive design. Prior to his work in the field of environmental education he worked in advertising and book publishing.

Favorite bird/wildlife moment: Working with a cuscus at the San Diego Zoo
Environmental hero: Chico Mendes, Peggy Shepard
Extracurricular activity that would surprise people: Glassblowing and bagpiping

Contact: New York, NY, 212.979.3094, cremington@audubon.org 

Elaine O’Sullivan, Director of Educational Publishing, manages the TogetherGreen-supported Pennies for the Planet program. Pennies for the Planet connects kids to Audubon conservation projects that keep our planet cleaner, greener, and wilder. Elaine also directs the Audubon Adventures program, which has been used by more than seven million students and teachers to learn about wild birds and other wildlife and their habitats.  

Favorite bird/wildlife moment: Snorkeling in the Caribbean and coming upon a sea turtle
Environmental hero: Hazel Wolf of Seattle Audubon Society
Extracurricular activity that would surprise people: Community organizing for various causes including rescuing shelter dogs and neighborhood preservation. 

Contact: New York, NY, 212.979.3184, eosullivan@audubon.org 

Florence Miller, Interim Co-Director, helps coordinate all program areas while also leading the Innovation Grants program, which supports inspiring and diverse projects around the country. Before joining the TogetherGreen team at Audubon, Flo was the Education Director at Center for Whole Communities, coordinating their Whole Thinking program for environmental and social justice leaders. Prior to that she worked as an Education Specialist at World Wildlife Fund; taught after-school and in-school environmental education programs in New Haven, Connecticut; conducted climate change research at Oxford University's Environmental Change Institute; taught in a high school in the Solomon Islands; and worked as a field researcher studying butterflies on Vietnam's Cat Ba Island. She has an undergraduate degree in geography from Oxford University in the U.K. and a master's in environmental science from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. She sits on the Board of EcoWomen, an organization devoted to fostering opportunities for women in the environmental field.

Favorite bird/wildlife moment: Spotting a leopard cat perched in a tree above me while using the, uh, “bog pit” at a research camp in Vietnam. 
What I wanted to be when I was little: Bigger. (And a marine biologist— thinking it would surely involve swimming with dolphins.)
Extracurricular activity that would surprise people: I’d love to boast about my tightrope walking skills here…if I had any. I raise chickens for eggs, but these days, it seems like urban chicken-rearing is as common as gum-chewing. (Better for breakfast, however.)

Contact: Vermont, 802.505.0839, grants@togethergreen.org

Luisa Arnedo, Manager, Conservation Leadership Program, coordinates all programming related to the TogetherGreen Fellows and alumni.  Before joining TogetherGreen, Luisa advised EcoAnalytics on the effects of climate change on biodiversity and worked with the Conservation Leadership Programme at Conservation International providing advice and support to young conservationists. Prior to that, Luisa dedicated most of her career to work with endangered species of primates. Conducting fieldwork in the remote tropical rainforests of Colombia and the Atlantic Forest in Brazil, she worked with local stakeholders to reduce deforestation, incentivize forest restoration, and develop plans to connect fragments of forest through natural corridors. Luisa has a Bachelor’s degree in Ecology from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Colombia, and a Master’s and a Doctorate in Anthropology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Favorite bird/wildlife moment: Running into a puma that was less than 15 feet away from me. Seeing two king vultures flying away after feeding from a mountain tapir. Both events took place at the Macarena forest in Colombia.
What I wanted to be when I was little: A dancer.
Extracurricular activity that would surprise people: I wasn’t born with a nice voice but I love to sing. Some times I can sing for hours…..in the privacy of my own home of course!

Contact; Washington, D.C., 202.600.7976, larnedo@audubon.org