
Ten Years Later: Reflections on the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
April 13, 2020 — Audubon magazine asked four writers to contemplate what has and hasn't changed in the aftermath of the Gulf catastrophe.
David Jeffrey Ringer is a birder, a naturalist, and a writer. He is a co-founder of Green Jay Strategies and before that, he worked at Audubon for nearly twelve years. He was Audubon's front-line PR manager on the Gulf Coast during the 2010 BP oil disaster and led communications for the RESTORE Act campaign. He then served as Audubon's national communications director, and then chief network and communications officer, leading Audubon's communications, chapter relations, and Bird-Friendly Communities work, and founding Audubon on Campus.