AFTA Associates, Inc. Elects New Directors and Advisors to its Boards
Washington DC - June, 2005 -- AFTA Associates is pleased to announce the addition of five new Directors and Advisors to its Board. AFTA's founding members elected Sarah Clark, Director, Media Relations, Education and International Communications Division of National Geographic Society; Christine Dykema, president of Dykema Marketing, James McClelland, an international trade and development specialist; Miles Roberts, Deputy Head, Department of Conservation Biology at Smithsonian's National Zoological Park; and Karen Rogers, communications specialist and business consultant. These representatives will join current board members Barbara Vandegrift and Lori Stewart, President, who have been serving with AFTA since its founding in 2001. These new members replace founding directors Mary Moore of Mathematica Policy Research, Roger Molander of Rand Corporation, and Marijke Dupree, an independent consultant, who retired from the Board after five years of valued service.
“We are honored to have Sarah, Christine, Jamie, Miles and Reggie on our Board and as Advisors” said Lori Stewart, AFTA's President. “They have experience in conservation, research, education, cultures, international development, marketing and communications that AFTA can draw on as we move to capitalize on our unique education and giving program. At the same time, we will greatly miss Mary, Roger and Marijke, who were critical to the founding of AFTA, and whose wisdom, experience, good humor and support for the past five years have been a personal inspiration, source of strength that carried us through our emerging years.”
AFTA Associates, Incorporated ( www.aftaassociates.org ; www.artfortheanimals.org )
AFTA Associates, Incorporated (AFTA) is a non-profit organization that works in collaboration with existing wildlife and nature conservancy organizations to preserve wildlife and nature through programs that make the business of saving wildlife, a business from which the people who share the region and resources with the animals can make a living. AFTA's flagship program, Art For The Animals is a unique giving program that combines wildlife gift donations together with donor thank you gifts of hand crafted folk art to: raise funds for conservation, create markets for conservation enterprise products, create unique holiday gifts for giving, and to turn consumer gift giving into a positive market force.
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