Susan Antenen

This post is for archival purposes only. Susan Antenen no longer works for CBI.

Susan Antenen is the Conservation Biology Institute’s Sierra Nevada Project Coordinator

Susan Antenen is the Conservation Biology Institute’s Sierra Nevada Project Coordinator.   Susan is helping CBI coordinate its science activities in the Sierra to deliver timely and integrated information and recommendations to public lands managers.

Susan is also the Coordinator for the Southern Sierra Partnership (SSP) comprised of CBI, The Nature Conservancy, Audubon California, Sierra Business Council, and the Sequoia Riverlands Trust.   The SSP works towards a vision of healthy vibrant towns surrounded by well-managed natural lands and thriving working farms and ranches.  

Before joining the CBI in 2010, Susan worked for The Nature Conservancy for 19 years in a number of capacities.   She started the Conservancy’s Mongolia program and grassland protected area initiative.   Before that she was the Interim Director of Maui, Hawaii.   In New York, she founded and directed one of the Conservancy’s first temperate coastal/estuarine ecosystem restoration programs in US.   Susan is a graduate of Goddard College in Vermont.