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Debra Erickson is President of the Worldwide Zoo Educators Affiliation. She is also the Marketing Director for San Diego Zoo International, Govt Director of Atlantis Blue Project Basis and Accreditation Chair for Atlantis, Paradise Island. She has been in the conservation, interpretation, marketing, communications, and schooling fields for 30 many years and has labored for the San Diego Zoo, the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, Atlantis, Paradise Island, Atlantis, The Palm, SeaWorld San Diego, SeaWorld Orlando, S.E.A. Aquarium and Dolphin Island.
Debra has held a extensive selection of positions in the instruction and interpretation discipline which includes Schooling Director at San Diego Zoo Safari Park, SeaWorld Orlando, and Atlantis, Paradise Island. She has designed interpretive ideas for a extensive range of reveals which includes Manatees: The Very last Generation, Wild Arctic, and Tiger Path which have all gained the American Association of Zoos and Aquariums Prime Exhibit Honors award. At this time she is primary the energy to give San Diego Zoo Youngsters, a 24-hour, industrial-totally free tv channel, to 300 children’s hospitals and Ronald McDonald Houses all over the planet.
Acquiring labored in over 40 nations in the course of her vocation and looking at the problems that numerous developing nations around the world encounter, Debra has a keen dedication to conservation. She labored as Govt Director and Conservation Director for Orangutan Basis Global and was dependable for establishing and employing the conservation system for Tanjung Puting National Park. Debra continues her conservation operate by way of the Atlantis Blue Project Basis the place she cash marine conservation projects and mentors conservationists in the subject.
Debra acquired her B.A. in Biology from Scripps College or university and her M.A. in Educational Technological innovation from San Diego State College.
