Biographies for the Official Slate of Nominees, Annual Meeting of Members, January 28, 2005

For a three-year term expiring in January 2008 Juliet P. Tammenoms Bakker Greenwich, Connecticut (2nd term) Chair, Audit Committee and Asset Review Task Force, National Audubon Society. Greenwich Audubon Center Campaign Committee. General Partner, Pequot Ventures. Board member of a number of private healthcare companies. Steven G. Blank Menlo Park, California (1st term) Board member, Audubon California. Director, Pescadero Conservation Alliance. Director, Immersion Corp., Macrovision Corp., Pharmix, CafePress.com. Lecturer, U.C. Berkeley Haas Business School. Carol M. Browner Washington, D.C. (2nd term) Chair, National Audubon Society. Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency 1993-2001. Secretary, Florida Department of Environmental Regulation 1991-1993. Principal, The Albright Group LLC. Margot Ernst New York, New York (1st term) Board member and stewardship committee member, Audubon New York. Board member, High Peaks Audubon Society. Board member, Smithsonian Institution National Museum of the American Indian and Adirondack Museum. Owner of an Adirondack wilderness resort. Christopher M. Harte Portland, Maine (3rd term) Chair, Governance Committee and Assistant Secretary, National Audubon Society. Former trustee, Maine Audubon Society, Audubon Texas and the Maine, Florida and Texas chapters of The Nature Conservancy. Director, Harte-Hanks, Geokinetics and Mincron Software Systems. Former publisher of The Centre Daily Times, Akron Beacon Journal, Portland Press Herald, and Maine Sunday Telegram. William W. McQuilkin, Jr. Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida (2nd term) Southeast Region Nominee. Chair, Ad-Hoc Chapter Task Force, National Audubon Society. Chairman, Presidents’ Council Audubon of Florida. Founding board chair, North Florida Land Trust. Peggy E. Montano Denver, Colorado (1st term) Board member, Audubon Colorado. Partner, Trout, Witwer & Freeman, P.C. Former Colorado assistant attorney general. Advisor, University of Colorado Natural Resources Law Center. Former chair, Colorado State Parks Board. Geoffrey Cobb Ryan New York, NY (2nd term) Northeast Region Nominee. Former director of public affairs, New York City Department of Environmental Protection. Founder, past president, and longtime board member, New York City Audubon Society. Vice-chair, Audubon New York.

Andrew Sansom Austin, Texas (2nd term) Vice-chair, Governance Committee, National Audubon Society. Former director, Texas Parks and Wildlife. Founder of Parks and Wildlife Foundation of Texas, Inc. Former state director, The Nature Conservancy of Texas. Advisory trustee, Bat Conservation International. Author of two books on Texas natural history. Robert Stanton Washington, D.C. (2nd term) Former director, The National Park Service. Represented The National Park Service and the U.S. Department of the Interior on the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Board of Trustees, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council, and the Committee for the Preservation of the White House. Virginia K. Stowe New York, New York (1st term) Board Member, Secretary, Audubon New York. Chair, Annual Fund 2004-05, Audubon New York. Volunteer, Audubon New York’s “For the Birds” program (urban education). Educational consultant and author. Roger Wolf Tucson, Arizona (1st term) Rocky Mountain Region Nominee. Former president, Tucson Audubon Society. Secretary, Arizona Audubon Council. Former legal aid lawyer, seasonal ranger at Yellowstone National Park, and Peace Corps volunteer. To fill a vacancy expiring in January 2006 Constantine Sidamon-Eristoff New York, NY Chair, Audubon New York. Of counsel, Lacher & Lovell-Taylor. Former regional administrator, Environmental Protection Agency. Secretary, New York League of Conservation Voters Education Fund. Chairman emeritus, Phipps Houses. Director, Bryce Thompson Institute for Plant Research. Member, Orange County, New York Planning Board. To fill a vacancy expiring in January 2007 Richard T. Schlosberg III San Antonio, Texas Former president, David and Lucile Packard Foundation. Former publisher and CEO, Los Angeles Times and The Denver Post. Chair, Capital Campaign Committee, Debs Park Audubon Center. Board member, Smithsonian Institution, Partnership for Public Service, the National Air and Space Museum and Pomona College. Served on The Nature Conservancy’s Governance Advisory Panel.

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