Jessica Brown
Chair, Protected Landscapes Specialist Group
Biographical Sketch: Jessica Brown is Executive Director of the New England Biolabs Foundation whose mission is to foster community-based stewardship of landscapes and seascapes and the bio-cultural diversity of these places. She chairs the Protected Landscapes Specialist Group of IUCN’s World Commission on Protected Areas and has worked in countries of the Caribbean, Mesoamerica, Andean South America, Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans. During 2010 – 2014 she worked as a consultant with the UNDP/GEF Community Management of Protected Areas for Conservation (COMPACT) initiative. Prior to joining the foundation she was Senior Vice President for International Programs at the Quebec-Labrador Foundation/Atlantic Cen¬ter for the Environment (QLF) and worked as a partner with the US National Park Service and its Conservation Study Institute. She serves on the governing boards of Terralingua and International Funders for Indigenous Peoples, and on the advisory board of the Sacred Natural Sites Initiative. She has published widely on topics related to landscape stewardship, civic engagement and protected area governance.
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Engaging local communities in stewardship at landscape level: Lessons learned from an international initiative