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Ecological Society of America
Education and Diversity Programs Office
1990 M Street, Suite 700, Washington, DC 20036
phone: 202-833-8773, fax: 202-833-8775
Email: seeds@esa.org

Teresa Mourad is the ESA Director of Education and Diversity Programs. Teresa has more than 15 years of nonprofit management experience including program development, fundraising, membership development, event planning and grants management. Most recently, she worked as Chief Operations Officer for the North American Association for Environmental Education, and was Executive Director of the Environmental Education Council of Ohio. Teresa has a strong commitment to diversity programs and has led several initiatives to increase access to environmental education resources among minority educators since 2001. She holds a BA in Sociology and a MS in Environmental Education.
Email: teresa@esa.org

Melissa Armstrong is the SEEDS Program Manager based in Flagstaff, AZ. In addition to helping with the overall SEEDS program, she is responsible for aspects of the program that takes place in the western U.S., including activities at Tribal Colleges. She started working with SEEDS at the Institute of Ecosystem Studies in 2000 and transferred to ESA in 2002. Mrs. Armstrong received her B.S. in Environmental Science from the University of Rhode Island and an M.A. in Teaching of Ecology from Northern Arizona University. She is particularly interested in what influences students' decisions about following an ecology pathway, and how the field of ecology can change to encourage and support greater diversity.
Email: melissa@esa.org

Erin Vinson is the SEEDS Program Coordinator. She was interested in ecology and environmental science since her childhood, but it really took hold in 1998 when she was working as a conservation volunteer in Australia. Since that life-changing experience, she pursued her interests in both the scientific community (as an ecology undergraduate student and lab assistant at the University of Georgia) and the educational community (as a park ranger in Maine and an Environmental Science high-school teacher in North Carolina ). She   believes in the importance of diversity within ecology (and all sciences) as well as the need for increasing awareness in ecology and environmental science.

Email: erin@esa.org

Jui Shrestha is the SEEDS Program Assistant. She graduated from Colby Colby, Maine with majors in Government and Urban Studies in May, 2007. She became interested in issues of environmental justice and environmental management during the course of her undergraduate study. She hopes to broaden her background in the social sciences with knowledge of science by interacting with ecologists young and old. She is committed to the ideals of including diverse viewpoints and people in the study of ecology that the SEEDS program is working towards achieving.
Email: jui@esa.org

Antonio Cordero is ESA's Spring 2008 education intern. He will be assisting the education staff in promoting and developing the SEEDS program, amongst other functions. Antonio is a senior in Oregon State University’s Environmental Science program, his area of specialty is in Wildlife Conservation. He has completed internships in ecological restoration for the Chesapeake Bay Foundation and the Anacostia Watershed Society. Antonio has assisted in the field data collection phase of several ecological studies involving mammals, reptiles and amphibians. Currently, he is in the early stages of designing a research proposal of his own. In his free time, he enjoys bird watching, hiking and ecology related discussions. Antonio is very excited to join the SEEDS program and looks forward to working with all of its members.
Email: educationintern@esa.org

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