 SER International Staff
Executive Director
Amanda Jorgenson
Amanda Jorgenson is an enthusiastic and committed conservation biologist. As Executive Director of SER, she is responsible for managing and implementing the organization’s goals and strategic objectives.
Prior to joining SER in April 2009, she served as the Executive Director of the California Native Plant Society (CNPS) for three years. CNPS is a non-profit, grass roots organization dedicated to promoting the knowledge and conservation of California’s native flora. Prior to CNPS, Amanda also served as the Ecuador Program Coordinator of the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), the executive director of Fundación Natura, and an environmental consultant for the Colombian Ministry of the Environment and World Wildlife Fund-Colombia.
In the United States, Amanda worked as a program manager for Tropical Research and Development, Inc., an international, natural-resource-management consulting firm based in Gainesville, FL. She also worked for World Wildlife Fund-US and Traffic-USA, in Washington, DC, where she begun her conservation career. Amanda has a BS in Biology from George Mason University and a MA in Latin American Studies/Tropical Conservation and Development from the University of Florida-Gainesville.
 Program Director
Sasha Alexander
In this role, he develops and implements a diversity of projects and programs that are key to SER’s emergence as the leading international organization dedicated to ecological restoration. He coordinates the Science & Policy Working Group, administers the Global Restoration and Indigenous Peoples’ Restoration Networks, edits the weekly e-newsletter RESTORE, and spearheads a number of international collaborations and partnerships--among many of his other responsibilities.
Sasha has had a variety of work and travel experiences that have led him to SER, from working as a trade policy analyst for the US Department of Agriculture to the oversight of World Bank environmental loans, and many things in between. He first encountered SER while doing research on halophytes and working with a group of scientists from Arizona focused on saline agriculture. He grew up in the northeast US, shifting from Baltimore to Boston and points in between on an educational odyssey, finally completing his masters degree at Yale University.
 GRN & Membership Coordinator
Levi Wickwire
Charged with building the GRN case studies database, Levi spends the majority of his time researching ecological restoration projects from around the world and making their methodologies and outcomes available to a wide audience of practitioners, professionals, academics and students. He is continually in search of new and interesting case studies that incorporate novel approaches to restoration and yield fresh insights that, he hopes, will help guide the development of future restoration efforts.
His interest in ecology arose out of studies in anthropology at Northern Arizona University, where he discovered an enduring fascination with ethnobotany and traditional ecological knowledge. Subsequent travels in Latin America and exposure to rural livelihoods only served to deepen this interest, and SER has afforded him an invaluable opportunity to broaden his base of knowledge and contribute something tangible to efforts aimed at safeguarding biodiversity and fostering sustainable relationships between humans and their natural surroundings.
SER International Headquarters
285 W. 18th St., #1
Tucson, AZ 85701 USA
P: 001 (520) 622-5485
F: 001 (270) 626-5485
www.ser.org
www.GlobalRestorationNetwork.org
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