Mission: To protect birds, other wildlife and their habitat through conservation, education and advocacy for the benefit of people and all living things.
Year founded: 1897
Executive director: Lawrence J. F. Taft
2015 revenue: $6.1 million
Officers:
Cynthia J. Warren, president
Attorney Cameron & Mittleman LLP
Terry Meyer, vice president
Cartographer (retired) R.I. Department of Environmental Management
Deborah Linnell, treasurer
Program officer van Beuren Charitable Foundation
Christian Capizzo, secretary
Attorney Shechtman, Halperin, Savage LLP
Board members:
Allison Barrett
Science teacher (retired) Lincoln School
Marion Baust-Timpson
Director of corporate program management, SeraCare
Loren B. Byrne
Associate professor of biology and environmental science Roger Williams University
Dr. Nicholas A. Califano
Gastroenterologist/clinical associate professor of medicine (retired) Brown University
Mark W. Carrison
Accountant Carrison Consulting LLC
Nathan W. Chace
Partner Chace Ruttenberg & Freedman LLP
Charles Clarkson
R.I. Bird Atlas Coordinator R.I. DEM Division of Fish and Wildlife – University of Rhode Island
Meghan Frost
Senior regional development director, Southern California and Arizona Brown University
Donald Heitzmann
President, software engineer (retired) Dovetail Technologies & Services Inc.
Owen Heleen
Chief strategy officer The Providence Center
Thomas Humphreys
Attorney Cameron & Mittleman LLP
Keith T. Killingbeck
Professor of biological sciences/associate dean of graduate school (retired) University of Rhode Island
Peter G. Lisle
Partner emeritus Brown, Lisle/Cummings Inc.
Peter Paton
Wildlife biologist and professor University of Rhode Island
Heidi Farmer Piccerelli
Real estate agent Mott & Chace Sotheby’s International Realty
Harold Pomeroy
Professor of marine biology Roger Williams University
Candace E. Powell
Clinical and laboratory coordinator (retired) Department of Nursing, Salve Regina University
David T. Riedel
Attorney Adler Pollock & Sheehan P.C.
Everett Stuart
Soil scientist (retired) USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service
Michael Viveiros
Architect/principal Durkee, Brown, Viveiros & Werenfels, Architects Inc.