Board of Directors
Lou Ann Dietz
President and Founding Director
Lou Ann is an independent consultant in Building Capacity for Conservation Practitioners and serves as adjunct faculty member of the Graduate Program in Sustainable Development and Conservation Biology at the University of Maryland.
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James M. Dietz James Dietz is Interim Associate Dean in the Office of Undergraduate Studies at the University of Maryland. He is also Professor in the University of Maryland’s Department of Biology. The geographic focus of Jim’s research and conservation activities is Brazil. For the past 27 years, Dr. Dietz has studied the behavior and ecology of endangered golden lion tamarins in Rio de Janeiro state.
Vice President and Founding Director
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Maria Inês Castro
Treasurer and Founding Director
Currently serving as Program Coordinator with the Ecosystem Finance Division of Conservation International, Inês has thirty years of experience working on conservation projects including reintroduction and animal enrichment for the Golden Lion Tamarin Conservation Program, in the state of Rio de Janeiro.
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Benjamin B. Beck
Assistant Treasurer and Founding Director
Ben currently serves as Director of Conservation of the Great Ape Trust of Iowa. Beck is an author of 50 scientific papers and books, and has given over 100 presentations at scientific conferences, colleges and universities. He is a member of the Primate Specialist Group of the World Conservation Union (IUCN), and of the Group’s Section on Great Apes.
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Andrew J. Baker
Director
Andy is Chief Operating Officer at the Philadelphia Zoo. In this position oversees daily operations of a more than 70 staff, including veterinarians, curators and keepers, caring for more than 1,300 animals.
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Jennifer Mickelberg
Director
Jennifer is currently a student at George Mason University writing her doctoral dissertation on management of the Golden Lion Tamarin Metapopulation in Brazil. She is also a Research Fellow at the Smithsonian’s National Zoological Park, where she manages the captive population of golden lion tamarins throughout the world.
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Nancy de Moraes
Secretary and Director
Nancy recently retired from World Wildlife Fund where she worked for 19 years as a Program Officer in the Latin America Program providing management support to WWF’s initiatives in a number of South American countries. These wide-ranging and strategic initiatives included efforts in ecoregion conservation, protected area creation and management, transborder collaboration, policy, timber management, alternative income sources for local populations, environmental education, research, and species conservation. more>
