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I grew up in Parsippany, New Jersey. I graduated from COA in 1992 and won a Thomas J. Watson Fellow that year, which brought me to New Zealand, Chile, and the Amazon Basin. After guiding rafts for a bit, I went on to get my master’s degree and PhD from Tulane University. My PhD was in cultural anthropology and, for that degree and during that time, I lived and worked in Alta Verapaz, Guatemala. When I graduated in 2001, I began a career with the World Wildlife Fund. That lasted ten years and was fantastic. I was fortunate to be offered the job as COA president in 2011. I live in Bar Harbor with my wife Karen, my two daughters Maggie and Molly, and my black lab Lucy.

What’s changed at COA from the time you were a student in the late 1980s until now?

There’s lots to talk about. Let’s talk about it face-to-face.