Laurie Andrea Wayburn (born September 27, 1954)
is an American author and conservationist. She was born to
Peggy Wayburn and
Edgar Wayburn
Edgar Arthur Wayburn (September 17, 1906 – March 5, 2010) was an American environmentalist who was elected president of the Sierra Club five times in the 1960s. He has been described as one of the least-known and yet most successful defenders of ...
on September 28, 1954.
She transferred to
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...
after a year at the
University of California, Davis
The University of California, Davis (UC Davis, UCD, or Davis) is a public land-grant research university near Davis, California. Named a Public Ivy, it is the northernmost of the ten campuses of the University of California system. The institut ...
, and later graduated from Harvard University.
She was the executive director of
Point Reyes Bird Observatory
Point Blue Conservation Science, founded as and formerly named the Point Reyes Bird Observatory (PRBO), is a California-based wildlife conservation and research non-profit organization.
Overview
Point Blue was founded in 1965 to study bird migra ...
from 1987 to 1992. She is the president and co-founder of
Pacific Forest Trust. She received a
James Irvine Foundation The James Irvine Foundation is a philanthropic nonprofit organization established to benefit the people of California. The foundation's grantmaking focuses on a California where all low-income workers have the power to advance economically.
The fou ...
Leadership Award and a Kingsbury Browne Conservation Leadership Award
in 2008.
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Living people
1954 births
American conservationists
Harvard University alumni
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