Audrey has more than 30 years of experience working with leaders and teams to create and implement conservation and sustainability initiatives at the site, state, national, regional and global scales. Her expertise includes Facilitation, Strategic Planning, Collaboration & Partnership Development, Project Management, Organizational Effectiveness, Peer Learning, and Leadership Networks. Since 2016, she has enjoyed using her skills and experience to support and strengthen worthy projects led by partner organizations as an advisor, board or committee member, consultant, and friend.
From 2011 to 2015, Audrey spearheaded Hawaiʻi Green Growth (HGG) and the Aloha+ Challenge. HGG is a public-private partnership and statewide network that helps catalyze action across government, private sector, and civil society to achieve Hawaiʻi’s 2030 sustainability goals, and serve as a model for integrated green growth. Since 2010, she has served as Senior Advisor to the Global Island Partnership (GLISPA), where she provides guidance and support on strategy, international partnerships, program implementation, organizational effectiveness, funding, communications, and monitoring.
In 25 years with The Nature Conservancy (TNC), Audrey launched, directed and advised a wide variety of conservation initiatives in Hawaiʻi, the Pacific islands, Indonesia, China and globally. In Hawaiʻi, she worked with partners to create and lead many key early conservation programs – Hawaiʻi Heritage Program database to guide conservation planning; Hawaiʻi Conservation Biology Initiative, which became the HI Conservation Alliance; Natural Area Partnership & Forest Stewardship programs & long-term funding mechanisms; and five new nature reserves. As Deputy Director and Senior Conversation Advisor for TNC’s Asia Pacific region, her accomplishments included launching and strengthening:
- Micronesians in Island Conservation (MIC) – a pilot learning networking for leaders of government and non-government conservation organizations across Micronesia.
- Pacific Invasives Learning Network (PILN) and associated Pacific Invasives Partnership, strengthening regional coordination and action in invasive species management.
- Conservation Coaches Network (CCNet), which trains and coordinates peer learning for conservation coaches in more than 50 countries.
- Island Biodiversity Programme of Work under the UN Convention for Biological Diversity (UNCBD)
- Global Island Partnership recognized under the UNCBD and the UN Commission for Sustainable Development to promote leadership and collaborative action to build resilient and sustainable island communities.
Audrey lives on Molokai with her husband, dog and garden—and continues to work with partner organizations to advance conservation and sustainability locally and globally. She is a graduate of the University of Hawaiʻi, Mānoa (MA in Geography) and the University of California, Irvine (BS in Biology).
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