Working in shut collaboration with the Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee Nationwide Wildlife Refuge and native organizations, Natalie is targeted on bringing communities collectively to attach with nature in significant, lasting methods. Along with her roots in South Florida and a background in enterprise administration from Florida Atlantic College, Natalie combines her deep private ties with skilled know-how to strengthen group relationships, interact new audiences, and help conservation efforts on the bottom.
“Natalie brings the fervour and vitality we have to take our South Florida City Wildlife Refuge Program work to the following degree,” mentioned Desirée Sorenson-Groves, President & CEO of the Nationwide Wildlife Refuge Affiliation. “She’s a connector, a collaborator, and a pure chief—somebody who understands the facility of place and other people. We’re extremely fortunate to have her on board.”
Natalie is constructing on the robust basis laid by Liz Figueroa, who helped lay a powerful basis by tasks just like the Conservation Ranger Camp, Floating Wetlands, and Pocket Refuges. These packages are already seeing massive success: the Floating Wetland put in at SouthTech Academy is prospering, the second annual Conservation Ranger Camp kicks off this spring, and two new Pocket Refuges are set to be planted quickly.
In her function, Natalie is constructing on this momentum whereas bringing her personal imaginative and prescient to the desk. She’s partnering with teams like StandFirm Outreach, the Mates of Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee NWR, and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to deepen outreach, improve programming, and have a good time nature throughout South Florida. She’s additionally supporting native storytelling—just like the highly effective movie Backyard of the Glades—because it reaches new audiences at movie festivals and group occasions all through the area.
As a first-generation immigrant and proud member of the Hispanic group, Natalie is dedicated to creating extra inclusive pathways to conservation. Her fluency in Spanish and her ardour for breaking down limitations make her an important bridge to South Florida’s numerous communities.
For extra info or to attach with Natalie, you may attain her at nbalaguer@refugeassociation.org.
We’re so excited to have Natalie on board—and much more enthusiastic about the way forward for city conservation in South Florida.
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As the one nonprofit solely devoted to advocating on behalf of the Nationwide Wildlife Refuge System, the Nationwide Wildlife Refuge Affiliation protects, promotes, and enhances America’s wildlife heritage by strategic packages that serve the System and wildlife past its boundaries. The group addresses Refuge System funding, administration, and strategic progress, whereas additionally selling packages that maximize the system’s conservation influence.
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