Environment & Community

Wendy C. Willis is the Executive Director of Jocotoco Conservation Foundation, a sister non-profit in the United States that provides support to enhance the establishment and ongoing management Fundación Jocotoco's network of  16 ecological reserves whose mission is to protect and conserve threatened ecosystems in Ecuador, a country with one of the world’s richest and most important concentrations of biodiversity, especially in terms of threatened and endangered endemic species. My responsibilities range from fundraising, conservation planning, cultivating strategic partnerships and culminate with developing and implmenting large-scale conservation projects in Ecuador.

Wendy credits the Environment and Community program and its interdisciplinary approach for helping her develop the critical thinking skills she’ll use throughout her career.