Rebecca Esselman
Executive Director at Huron River Watershed Council
- Role
- Executive Director at Huron River Watershed Council
- Location
- Ann Arbor, MI, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Rebecca Esselman
I am a mission driven leader, passionate about environmental protection. I have spent my career focused on protecting water resources for biodiversity and human well being. Working from the international to the watershed scale, I have an understanding of the factors at play across scales that threaten our natural resources and the tools and strategies to affect change at each of these scales. I revel in opportunities to think creatively about solution sets that transcend boundaries and draw on the best of science, natural resource management, education and policy to find the most achievable, high impact outcomes to the challenges we face.I am a skilled nonprofit leader with strength in strategic direction, partnership building, fundraising and management. I consider equity and justice in all of my work and prioritize deep engagement to achieve solutions with multiple benefits and nurture leadership I see in others. We all have a role to play.
Experience
Executive Director
Aug 2019 — Present · Ann Arbor, MI, US
The Huron River Watershed Council is an 18 person non-profit organization with an annual budged of $2.7M. I oversee the operations, finances and programs of the organization and provide strategic direction to achieve our mission to protect and restore the Huron River for healthy and vibrant communities. I prioritize increasing the number and diversity of people that benefit from the work of the organization. To achieve this, I have grown the team and increased organizational capacity for community engagement, environmental justice and policy.
Education
The University of Georgia
MS, Conservation Ecology
1998 — 2001
Michigan State University
BS, Botany
1995 — 1997
Skills
- Watershed Management
- Natural Resource Management
- Climate Change Adaptation
- Water
- Botany
- Biodiversity
- Climate Change
- Sustainability
- Conservation Planning
- Freshwater Ecology
- Natural Resources
- Water Resources
- Landscape Ecology
- Environmental Science
- Environmental Education
- Ecological Restoration
- Environmental Awareness
- Ecology
- Knowledge Management
- Conservation Issues
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