KARYN STOCKDALE,
Vice President and Executive Director
Karyn has extensive experience in conservation, non-profit management
and development, gained through her work across the west. Prior to
heading up Audubon’s efforts in the state, Karyn served as the Interim
State Director with the Trust for Public Land in New Mexico. She has a
great knowledge of the state’s landscape, conservation issues and
critical stakeholders. Karyn supervised a portfolio of New Mexico
conservation projects as a Project Manager for TPL for over six years,
coordinating all aspects of acquisition and conveyance of critical open
space and environmentally sensitive lands. She has led and trained
staff, coordinated regional and national programs, developed
area-specific initiatives, prepared budgets, performed outreach, written
grants and cultivated donors, and assisted in developing and
implementing legislative strategies and the state strategic plan. As a
result of her accomplishments, in 2006, Karyn received the Trust for
Public Land’s highest award, the Collins Award for Excellence in Project
Management. Karyn also has years of experience in the non-profit world
while operating public facilities and programs for recycling, working as
an outdoor educator, both managing and instructing youth programs, and
guiding wilderness trips. She brings a deep love for New Mexico, its
people, wildlife and habitat to all of her work.
Nancy is from Illinois and has lived in New Mexico for the last fifteen years. She studied under the Leisure and Environmental Resource Administration program at George Williams College in Downers Grove, Illinois. Her professional experience has been mostly in the legal field having earned her paralegal certificate from Santa Fe Community College. After having worked at several major law firms in Santa Fe including Montgomery & Andrews and Scheuer, Yost and Patterson she was able to apply her legal experience to the field of land conservation. As a former project associate at the Trust for Public Land she worked on various land acquisition, conservation easement and park projects in New Mexico, Arizona and Utah.
Linda’s experience includes positions as director, coordinator, natural resources planner, water quality specialist, naturalist, and environmental educator for non-profit organizations, governmental agencies and tribes. As the former Southwest Regional Director for Audubon in Colorado, Linda performed outreach related to new programs and Audubon chapter activities, developed, designed and taught environmental programs for 2nd through 4th grade students and led field trips for adults in partnership with environmental organizations. Her experience managing environmental education centers started in 1976 at Deer Hollow Farm in California as director of a 750-acre environmental education farm and open space preserve where she recruited and trained docents and led daily school programs and public education programs. Linda’s main strengths lie in environmental education, biology, restoration and conservation of ecosystems and using art to interpret nature.
Flannery was born and reared in South Carolina, and has lived and worked across the country, including California, Maryland, Colorado, and Tennessee. Flannery spent ten years working with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation in Annapolis, Maryland, where as managing editor she oversaw the publications department and the writing, editing and design of all publications. Flannery's environmental career started in the early 1980s as Coordinator of the Board of Directors at the Sierra Club's national headquarters in San Francisco. During her time in Colorado, Flannery and her partner, Gus, founded and operated a small nonprofit providing hippotherapy to children and teens with disabilities.
Already a member of Audubon, Byron is currently a broadcast meteorologist for KOAT-TV, channel 7, in Albuquerque and you can see him on the weekend shows. Byron will continue his job as meteorologist and will work with Audubon New Mexico part-time for the next several months on climate change issues and outreach to the public. He’s lived in New Mexico for nearly seven years now, but was born in Miami or “hurricane country” as he calls it and then moved to “tornado country” (Oklahoma) and chased tornadoes as an intern for a TV station while studying meteorology at the University of Oklahoma. Byron graduated with a B.S. in Geography. He has forecasted weather in OK, WI, IA, CO, and NM. In 2006, he received an Emmy nomination here in NM for weathercasts and was recognized by the A.P. for Best Weathercast. Byron has years of experience in public speaking and has provided countless presentations to schools, businesses, non profits and churches. He also has a great sense of humor, which we all know is essential!
Dana is a manager and educator now working with Audubon to implement statewide education programs emphasizing natural resource conservation and sustainability through hands-on, experiential activities. Dana is a former Assistant Field Division Director for the New Mexico State Land Office. She is the former President and a current board member of the statewide Environmental Education Association of New Mexico, the former Chair of the Youth Conservation Corps Commission, and is the statewide coordinator, facilitator and teacher trainer for the national curriculum, Leopold Education Project (LEP). Dana’s bachelor degree in Political Science with a minor in Environmental Issues is from Colorado College and her master’s in Parks and Recreation, with an emphasis in Environmental Education, is from the University of New Mexico.
Jeremy has many years of experience in both the public and private school sector most recently as a 5th grade science and general teacher at Topeka Collegiate School in Kansas. Jeremy has a BA in Environmental Studies from the University of Kansas, a master’s degree in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Colorado at Denver, and had been completing courses towards a MBA at Washburn University before recently moving to New Mexico. Jeremy’s professional experience includes working at a nature center outside of Topeka, working for the Keystone Science School in Colorado as an Assistant Camp Director and as the lead Environmental Educator at YMCA’s Camp Shady Brook in Colorado. Jeremy is an experienced outdoor leader, currently has Wilderness First Responder certification and speaks Spanish.
Natalie lives on-site at the Center in our “intern house” that we’ve renamed the “cottage”. She moved here from Galveston, Texas just a few weeks ago and she always seems to be smiling! With a background in horticulture and recent teaching experience in art and environmental science, Natalie brings to Audubon her understanding of art and nature education with some event and program coordination. She has led groups in outdoor settings, including bird habitat field trips along coastal Texas and native plant ecology tours at the National Wildflower Research Center near Austin. Natalie has worked at an organic gardening Internet company and made a solo trek through the Pyrenees in France and Spain!
Meredith lives in town with her husband and just started working with us a few days ago. She has been working as a freelance writer and customer service person (some sales and some office work) at Nedra Matteucci Galleries. While in college, Meredith helped to organize and host Texas Tech University’s 2005 Arbor Day Celebration and she participated in the Llano Estacado Audubon Society’s 2nd Annual Prairie Festival. If you get a chance, you should ask her about her final thesis and the amazing place she researched!