1. Now that you've had some time to settle in as Executive Director, what are your near and long term goals for the Biodiversity Project?

One of the decisions I made when I joined the organization is to focus our work on the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River. We have a history of success in designing, conducting and evaluating Great Lakes communications projects, and I wanted to build on those successes. The organization had been doing some work on the Mississippi River before I came along, and as I learned more about it, I began to see that there were many strategies and successful methods from our Great Lakes work that could easily be transferred to the Mississippi project.