After twenty years as an investigative television correspondent specializing in wildlife, policy, health and environmental issues, I joined the NY based Wildlife Conservation Society as head of Conservation Communications. Working with the international field programs and both broadcast and print media, we developed new initiatives that led to greater collaboration between field conservation and the broadcast community. In 2001, I became executive director of the International Wildlife Film Festival in Missoula, Montana which then evolved into the International Wildlife Media Center, a year round organization and parent of the International Wildlife Film Festival and Montana CINE International Film Festival. My personal philosophy is that media is one of the most powerful tools we have for impacting and enhancing global conservation efforts.