Quammen founded and directs, The Tributary Fund, an organization that builds bridges between science, religious and community leaders. Her work takes her to Mongolia several times a year to coordinate Buddhist lamas and fisheries biologists. She will be traveling to southern Sudan in December to meet large mammal biologists and Dinka leaders to research project opportunities in the Sudd Swamp area. Betsy has a Master's of Science from University of Montana in Environmental Studies and is a PhD candidate at Montana State University in Religion and Environmental History. She has served on the national board of directors of the Sierra Club and worked with the Alliance for the Wild Rockies, American Wildlands, Montana State University's Center for Native American Studies, Wallace Stegner Program and many other conservation groups.
Follow her work at: www.TheTributaryfund.org