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River (she/her/hers) is the Pacific Shorebird Conservation Initiative Coordinator with ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Alaska and ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ.

River joined ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ in 2017 and has more than 20 years of experience in leading international shorebird conservation and research projects in the Pacific and East Asian-Australasian Flyways. She earned her M.S. in wildlife conservation from the University of Alaska Fairbanks in 2011, studying the breeding and migration ecology of Dunlin. River co-created the Pacific Americas Shorebird Conservation Strategy and serves as the coordinator for the partnership.

She advises shorebird conservation programs more broadly through her service on the following executive councils: U.S. Shorebird Conservation Partnership, Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network’s Hemispheric Council, and Western Hemisphere Shorebird Group.