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Ecological Society of America
Education and Diversity Programs Office
1990 M Street, Suite 700, Washington, DC 20036
phone: 202-833-8773, fax: 202-833-8775
Email: seeds@esa.org

Teresa Mourad is the ESA Director of Education and Diversity Programs. Teresa has more than 15 years of nonprofit management experience including program development, fundraising, membership development, event planning and grants management. Most recently, she worked as Chief Operations Officer for the North American Association for Environmental Education, and was Executive Director of the Environmental Education Council of Ohio. Teresa has a strong commitment to diversity programs and has led several initiatives to increase access to environmental education resources among minority educators since 2001. She holds a BA in Sociology and a MS in Environmental Education.
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Melissa Armstrong is the SEEDS Program Manager based in Flagstaff, AZ. In addition to helping with the overall SEEDS program, she is responsible for aspects of the program that takes place in the western U.S., including activities at Tribal Colleges. She started working with SEEDS at the Institute of Ecosystem Studies in 2000 and transferred to ESA in 2002. Mrs. Armstrong received her B.S. in Environmental Science from the University of Rhode Island and an M.A. in Teaching of Ecology from Northern Arizona University. She is particularly interested in what influences students' decisions about following an ecology pathway, and how the field of ecology can change to encourage and support greater diversity.
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Erin Vinson is the SEEDS Program Coordinator. She has been interested in ecology and environmental science since her childhood, but it really took hold in 1998 when she was working as a conservation volunteer in Australia. Since that life-changing experience, she has pursued her interests in both the scientific community (as an ecology undergraduate student and lab assistant at the University of Georgia) and the educational community (as a park ranger in Maine and an Environmental Science high-school teacher in North Carolina ). She   believes in the importance of diversity within ecology (and all sciences) as well as the need for increasing awareness in ecology and environmental science.

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Rui Zhang is ESA's Summer and Fall 2008 education intern. She is from mainland China and is currently a Master of Public Administration candidate at Cornell University. Growing up by the Yangtze river and witnessing the pollution increase dramatically year by year, she has been interested in environmental protection programs since childhood. She is very proud to have participated in the "Saving the Yangtze River" project and helped arrange field trips for undergraduate students in 2004 which made a huge impact on water pollution management in China. After working as a conservation volunteer in Australia in 2006 and 2007, she was encouraged to learn more about ecology and environmental science. She is very excited to join ESA and is ready to combine her knowledge in public affairs and her strong interest in      ecology and diversity to help develop the SEEDS program.
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