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Black Tie International:
Activist Susan
Rockefeller Joins Oceana Board of Directors
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Activist Susan
Rockefeller Joins
Oceana Board of
Directors
Documentary
filmmaker joins
Ted Danson, Sam
Waterston and others
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Ellen Futter, David and Susan Rockefeller,
Sam Waterston and Sir Thomas Moore.
Photo
Courtesy of
© Jon
Dee/OCEANA
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Washington,
DC
- Oceana announced today that
Susan Rockefeller, a respected documentary filmmaker,
author and environmentalist, has joined its Board of
Directors.
Rockefeller is a member of the Oceana Ocean Council, serving
as its chair since February of 2009, and she also serves as
the co-host of two major events which benefit Oceana. In the
spring, Susan and her husband David Rockefeller are the
co-hosts for the second annual Christie's Green Auction: A
Bid to Save the Earth, which will be held on March 29 in
New York. The auction benefits Oceana
as well as the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC),
Conservation International, the Central Park Conservancy and
Runway to Green. Rockefeller is also the co-host, along with
Ocean Council member Lois Robbins, of the Hamptons Splash
Party which will be held this summer on
Long Island.
" I
have always had a connection with the ocean," said
Rockefeller. "I'm joining Oceana's Board of Directors
because I am passionate about the need to protect our
oceans."
Her environmentally- and socially-focused films have won
many top film festival prizes. Rockefeller's recent films
include 'Making
the Crooked Straight' (HBO), which
chronicles one doctor's journey to save the world by saving
one child at a time, and 'Striking
a Chord,' which focuses on how music can
help heal soldiers with PTSD. Her passion for ocean
conservation manifested itself as a co-producer in the 2009
film 'A
Sea Change,' which documents a retired
teacher's quest to better understand the huge changes CO2 is
causing in our oceans.
" When
watching 'A Sea Change' you can feel Susan's passion and see
her talent," said Oceana board member and actor Sam
Waterston. "She tells a remarkable story while bringing the
devastating and largely unknown problem of ocean
acidification to the forefront. Sue is a true ocean hero."
Rockefeller's conservation work includes holding seats on
the Program Committee of The Stone Barns for Sustainable
Agriculture, the Global Leadership Council for NRDC and the
Audubon?s Council on Women in Conservation. As an author,
Rockefeller has written several career-oriented books,
including Green at
Work: Finding a Business Career That Works for the
Environment and
Finding Your Way With An
MBA: Insights From Those Landing Their Ideal Jobs.
" Susan
provides Oceana with a unique set of talents and point of
view as a filmmaker and sailor," said Board Chairman Dr.
Kristin Parker. "Her decades of experience in every aspect
of environmental work will be a terrific asset for us."
Oceana's Board of Directors is the organization?s governing
body. It approves all strategy, budgets and direction for
the group?s campaigns and organizational activities. The
Board includes actors Ted Danson and Sam Waterston, former
Organization of American States Secretary General César
Gaviria and globally respected fisheries scientist Dr.
Daniel Pauly.
Since its founding in 2001, Oceana has achieved dozens of
concrete policy victories for marine life and habitats,
including stopping bottom trawling in sensitive habitat
areas, saving sea turtles from commercial fishing gear and
protecting the Arctic from industrial fishing. Because of Oceana's
effectiveness, rating agency Charity Navigator has awarded
the group four stars (the highest possible rating in its
category).
" I've
had the great pleasure to work with Susan on the Ocean
Council for several years and it is an even greater pleasure
to have her now on our Board," said Andrew Sharpless, Oceana's Chief Executive Officer.
"I look forward to working with her in her new capacity as
board member as we continue to protect, preserve and restore
the health of our oceans."
Other members of Oceana's Board of Directors include James
Sandler (Vice-chair), Valarie Whiting (Treasurer), Simon
Sidamon-Eristoff (Secretary), Keith Addis (President),
Herbert M. Bedolfe, III, María Eugenia Girón, Stephen P.
McAllister, Michael Northrop and Heather Stevens. A full
description of Board of Directors and their affiliations can
be found at:
http://na.oceana.org/en/about-us/leadership/board-of-directors.
For
more information about Susan Rockefeller, go to,
susancohnrockefeller.com/.
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Oceana
campaigns to protect and restore the world's oceans. Our
teams of marine scientists, economists, lawyers and
advocates win specific and concrete policy changes to reduce
pollution and to prevent the irreversible collapse of fish
populations, marine mammals and other sea life. Global in
scope and dedicated to conservation, Oceana has campaigners
based in North America, Europe and South and
Central America. More than 500,000 members and
e-activists in over 150 countries have already joined
Oceana. For more information, please visit
http://bit.ly/gAUd1Y. |
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