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2 min readDebra Erickson is President of the International… Read More
Debra Erickson is President of the Global Zoo Educators Affiliation. She is also the Marketing Director for San Diego Zoo World, Govt Director of Atlantis Blue Project Foundation and Accreditation Chair for Atlantis, Paradise Island. She has been in the conservation, interpretation, marketing, communications, and schooling fields for 30 a long time 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 large wide range of positions in the schooling and interpretation discipline together with Schooling Director at San Diego Zoo Safari Park, SeaWorld Orlando, and Atlantis, Paradise Island. She has created interpretive plans for a broad wide variety of exhibits which include Manatees: The Final Generation, Wild Arctic, and Tiger Trail which have all won the American Affiliation of Zoos and Aquariums Top Show Honors award. At this time she is top the energy to give San Diego Zoo Kids, a 24-hour, commercial-free of charge television channel, to 300 children’s hospitals and Ronald McDonald Residences all-around the planet.
Acquiring worked in about 40 nations through her profession and looking at the worries that a lot of producing nations facial area, Debra has a keen commitment to conservation. She labored as Govt Director and Conservation Director for Orangutan Basis Intercontinental and was dependable for establishing and employing the conservation approach for Tanjung Puting National Park. Debra proceeds her conservation work as a result of the Atlantis Blue Task Basis where she cash marine conservation assignments and mentors conservationists in the area.
Debra received her B.A. in Biology from Scripps Faculty and her M.A. in Academic Engineering from San Diego State University.
