Debra Erickson is President of the Global… Read More
Debra Erickson is President of the Worldwide Zoo Educators Affiliation. She is also the Advertising and marketing Director for San Diego Zoo International, Govt Director of Atlantis Blue Venture Foundation and Accreditation Chair for Atlantis, Paradise Island. She has been in the conservation, interpretation, marketing and advertising, communications, and education fields for 30 yrs 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 wide variety of positions in the education and learning and interpretation industry like Education and learning Director at San Diego Zoo Safari Park, SeaWorld Orlando, and Atlantis, Paradise Island. She has developed interpretive options for a vast wide variety of displays together with Manatees: The Final Technology, Wild Arctic, and Tiger Path which have all gained the American Association of Zoos and Aquariums Top Exhibit Honors award. Presently she is leading the hard work to supply San Diego Zoo Children, a 24-hour, industrial-cost-free television channel, to 300 children’s hospitals and Ronald McDonald Properties close to the planet.
Getting worked in above 40 countries through her occupation and seeing the troubles that lots of creating nations face, Debra has a eager determination to conservation. She worked as Government Director and Conservation Director for Orangutan Basis Worldwide and was dependable for acquiring and applying the conservation strategy for Tanjung Puting National Park. Debra continues her conservation perform through the Atlantis Blue Project Basis the place she funds marine conservation assignments and mentors conservationists in the discipline.
Debra received her B.A. in Biology from Scripps School and her M.A. in Instructional Engineering from San Diego Point out University.