Our Board Members

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Ken received his B.S. in zoology from Cornell University and earned a doctorate at The Johns Hopkins University. Ken first traveled to the tropics while a Peace Corps wildlife biologist in Colombia during the early 1970s. Other fieldwork has included travel to over 80 countries during the past 50 years. He has resided overseas for a total of 7 years in Colombia, Venezuela, St. Lucia and Bangladesh. Over the last 35 years he worked with numerous international based clients and organizations to improve sustainability of development projects. 

For many years Ken sailed the Chesapeake Bay on his Tashiba 40 ft. cutter-rigged, Garza Grande and still motor- boats around the Severn watershed. Ken built his dream Green sustainable home on the waterfront in 2010 and has spent 25 years watching osprey at his home base on Martins Cove and throughout the Whitehall basin. In recent years Ken has conducted water quality monitoring in the Severn River tributaries for a local NGO and is actively engaged in local climate change and sustainable water and landscape sustainability. 

Susie is currently the Chief Executive Officer of the Montgomery County Coalition for the Homeless. Susie has over 30 years of experience in the non-profit and philanthropic sectors focusing on ending homelessness. She was the founding executive director of the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless, served with the D.C. Program and National Policy offices at Local Initiatives Support Corporation, and was the Director of Leadership and Policy Development at the Fannie Mae Foundation.

 She is a member of the Montgomery County Interagency Commission on Homeless and Chairs its Strategic Planning Committee. Susie is also a board member of the Rebuilding Together Anne Arundel County. She holds a MPA from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and a J.D. from Antioch School of Law. Susie and her husband Joe live on the waterfront in the Whitehall basin and have been Osprey Stewards with Operation Osprey. 

Colombian conservationist Ana María Morales was on her way to a pro-golf career but found her true passion: birds of prey –also known as raptors– which she now helps to conserve on Colombia's pacific coast. She was born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia and started playing golf as a little girl. 

She was studying undergraduate veterinary science in Colombia, when she got a scholarship to a college in the US to play golf and study wildlife biology. Morales spent two year playing golf competitively and got involved in wildlife rehab and that’s when everything clicked, and she finally found what really made her happy - raptors. 

Anna Maria now works with the Fundación Aguilas de los Andes (FADA or Eagles of the Andes Foundation) which runs the only rehabilitation center for birds of prey in Colombia. Anna Maria is a certified falconer, works on numerous raptor ecology and behavioral studies in Colombia, gives raptor classes and talks as a key FADA educator and is an active raptor rehabilitation expert. 

Family Co-Owner of the Ecohotel Diamante outside of the colonial town of Buga in central valley de Cauca, Colombia. Mauricio is a conservationist, birder and entrepreneur instrumental in establishing the Buga Territorio de Aves Collective, dedicated to conserving regional birds and promoting ecotourism tied to the regions’ economic and social development. The Buga Collective, formed at the beginning of 2021, brings together nine (9) Ecohotels, Ecolodges and ecotourism enterprises, with established services and routes for nature tourism, focused on bird watching (birdwatching) in the rural area of the Guadalajara River basin around Buga. 

Mauricio studied animal husbandry at LSU which he has applied across cattle, water buffalo and aquaculture enterprises. His knowledge and skills are evident across many business and social activities including the production of the famous El Diamante mozzarella cheese.

Matt has dedicated his career to teaching, first as a science high school teacher for 10 years. He integrated his love of the environment with the Environmental Literacy Signature Program in Anne Arundel County Public Schools, bringing environmental & outdoor education to high school students across all disciplines and classrooms. Matt was then hired at the Anne Arundel Community College (AACC) as the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Coordinator where he is expanding opportunities for AACC students to participate in hands on research and applies science. Matt still teaches Biology and Restoration Ecology.

Matt studied Biology at George Mason University and received his M.S. in Environmental Science from the University of Illinois.