The Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies became an IUCN member in the 90s. Ms. Hahn has been an active member for 7 years. The Association is the voice of the 50 U.S. state fish and wildlife agencies and helps enable conservation delivery on national and international scales. As the International Relations Director, she brings a wealth of US conservation/management and policy expertise and experience on how that intersects with and is influenced by global conversation actions such as those taken by IUCN. She also serves on the Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network’s Hemispheric Council, Women in Wildlife Conservation Network Steering Committee, IUCN Sustainable Use and Livelihoods Specialist Group, North American Bird Conservation Initiative (NABCI) International Committee, and CMS’s America’s Flyway Framework Task Force. Ms. Hahn participates in CITES, SPAW, CBD, CMS, and the Triateral Committee for Wildlife and Ecosystem Conservation and Management. She works on cross-border conservation with Canada and Mexico, and migratory bird conservation in the Western Hemisphere through implementation of Southern Wings, a partnership of state fish and wildlife agencies to conservation migratory birds throughout their annual cycle.

Jennifer Swandby is Manager of IUCN Red List Assessments at Rewild. Since 2015, she has served as the Global Coordinator of the IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group Red List Authority (ARLA) and has been leading the Second Global Amphibian Assessment—an initiative that seeks to update the extinction risk of the 8,000+ known species of frog, toad and caecilian on the IUCN Red List. Jennifer advises Rewild on the application of the IUCN Red List to its strategy and programs, including wildlife conservation projects and the identification of Key Biodiversity Areas including Alliance for Zero Extinction sites. Prior to joining Rewild, Jennifer worked for the IUCN Species Survival Commission in Bath, England for five years, collaborating closely with the IUCN Secretariat. An ongoing area of interest for Jennifer is the role of religion and faith in conservation, and she is a member of the SCB Religion and Conservation Biology Working Group. Jennifer has also held positions at the USDA Forest Service and A Rocha International. 

David Reynolds is motivated by his lifelong passion for natural resource conservation. David is the President of the George Wright Society (GWS), a long-time institutional member of IUCN. Being President of the GWS keeps him connected with the latest practices and practitioners of protected areas management in North American government, NGOs, Indigenous and local communities. During his 37-year career with the National Park Service (NPS), US Department of the Interior, he managed natural resource management, international training and programming, planning, environmental compliance, recreation and cultural resources programs in parks and central offices. From 2011 to 2015 he was assigned by the NPS to serve as the Senior Advisor for Protected Areas Capacity Development to the IUCN Global Protected Areas Program. During that time, he created and coordinated the activities of the IUCN WCPA Protected Areas Capacity Development Group. In addition to being President of the George Wright Society and a member of the IUCN WCPA Capacity Development Specialist Group, he also served on the Board of Directors of The Nepal Foundation.

Tracy is the North America Regional Director of IUCN, based in Washington DC. She has 20 years of experience developing, leading and overseeing global conservation and sustainable development initiatives and programmes. For the last 16 years, she has been working for Conservation International, where she designed and oversaw CI’s first global freshwater and ecosystem services programme, led the Greater Mekong programme from CI’s regional office based in Cambodia. Since 2020, she has led the North America region for IUCN and engaged in the IUCN US National Committee as a ex-officio member.

Kathryn Gwiazdon, J.D., is Executive Director, Center for Environmental Ethics and Law, a member of the Steering Committee of the Ecological Law and Governance Association, and Deputy Chair, Ethics Specialist Group, IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law. She was with the Center for Humans and Nature from 2005–12, and served as the Director of the North American Global Responsibilities program from 2009–12. During her time with CHN, and since 2005, she has worked closely with Dr. J. Ronald Engel on the Biosphere Ethics Initiative (BEI). The BEI is an international soft law program that seeks to bear witness to, highlight, and share principles of environmental ethics to guide individual, organizational, and governmental/policy decision-making at the local, regional, state, and international level. The BEI has been adopted as a foundational policy to IUCN, the world’s oldest and largest international environmental organization. In 2016 she founded the Center for Environmental Ethics and Law to serve as the permanent home, and advance the work of, the Biosphere Ethics Initiative. Kathryn has taught courses at the J.D. and LLM-level, has worked in more than 15 countries, and serves on several Boards and Steering Committees that advance new frameworks in law, ecological law, climate change justice, ecological integrity, and public health.