Environment for the Americas is 501(c)(3) organization is governed by a Board of Directors. Our Board brings a wealth of experience in conservation, management, strategic planning, and more, along with a passion of birds and nature.
The Board meets quarterly to review the activities of Environment for the Americas and to guide its activities. Board Members rotate approximately every two to three years. We seek candidates from across the Western Hemisphere who can contribute their expertise and energy to our work.
Kimberly Becerril
Board Member
Kimberly was selected to join the Environment for the Americas Board as a former intern. She worked for us in Monterey Bay, gathering information about migratory shorebirds and offering community programs to engage the public in birdwatching and bird conservation. Her perspectives help us to improve our youth programs. Today, she is also working towards her Master’s at MIT.
Guido Berguido
Board Member
Guido is the Director of AdoptaBosque, a strong partner of Environment for the Americas in Panama. He discovered Cerro Chucantí, the tallest mountain of Panama’s isolated Majé mountain range, in the early 2000s. Guido managed to purchase land containing some of the most threatened ecosystems, which quickly became one of the largest private nature reserves in Panama. Guido works closely with EFTA coordinating World Migratory Bird Day in Central American countries. With his associate Chelina Batista, he has been motivating ground and global educational activities in Panama every year.
Joni Ellis
Board Chair
Joni worked with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission where she was the statewide coordinator for bird conservation outreach. She founded Optics for the Tropics in 2001 to build capacity for bird conservation across the Western Hemisphere.
Adam Kent
Board Secretary
An Anhinga sparked Adam’s passion for birds when he was about five years old. Since then, he has worked in a variety of research and education projects, including as a naturalist guide. He has guided trips from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego and worked as Florida’s first Scrub-Jay Conservation Coordinator.
Anne Law
Board Member
Anne is the Senior Director & Counsel, Public Policy at the American Institute of Architects. She comes to the Board with a breadth of experience that includes work at other bird conservation – focused organizations. Her passion is lobbying, because she enjoys “demystifying the legislative and political process.” Anne contributes her commitment to conservation and her legal expertise to the Board.
Rebecca Safran
Board Member
Rebecca Safran is a behavioral and evolutionary ecologist who recently joined the Board of Environment for the Americas. With a focus on the ecological and evolutionary connections between animal behavior and population biology, she explores how individual variations in behavior, morphology, and physiology impact broader population patterns. Rebecca Safran brings a passion for understanding wildlife and a commitment to integrating behavioral ecology with population biology to our mission.
Angela Tringali
Board Member
Anne Zimmerman
Board Member
Anne served as the Director of the USFS’s national office for Watershed, Fish, Wildlife, Air and Rare Plants from 2005 to 2013. Her career with the agency spanned almost 35 years, beginning with work as a wildlife biologist in the George Washington National Forest in Virginia. She went on to hold biologist positions as well as other natural resource positions in the Kisatchie National Forest in Louisiana and National Forests in Alabama.