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Debra Erickson is President of the Worldwide Zoo Educators Affiliation. She can also be the Advertising Director for San Diego Zoo World, Authorities Director of Atlantis Blue Problem Basis and Accreditation Chair for Atlantis, Paradise Island. She has been within the conservation, interpretation, advertising and marketing, communications, and training fields for 30 a number of years and has labored for the San Diego Zoo, the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, Atlantis, Paradise Island, Atlantis, The Palm, SeaWorld San Diego, SeaWorld Orlando, S.E.A. Aquarium and Dolphin Island.&#13
Debra has held an enormous number of positions within the training and studying and interpretation trade comparable to Training and studying Director at San Diego Zoo Safari Park, SeaWorld Orlando, and Atlantis, Paradise Island. She has developed interpretive packages for a big number of reveals like Manatees: The Closing Period, Wild Arctic, and Tiger Path which have all gained the American Affiliation of Zoos and Aquariums Greatest Exhibit Honors award. In the mean time she is predominant the power to offer San Diego Zoo Younger kids, a 24-hour, industrial-cost-free television channel, to 300 kids’s hospitals and Ronald McDonald Properties all world wide.&#13
Buying labored in above 40 nations world wide throughout her vocation and searching on the difficulties that plenty of growing worldwide areas expertise, Debra has a keen motivation to conservation. She labored as Govt Director and Conservation Director for Orangutan Basis Worldwide and was reliable for establishing and using the conservation plan for Tanjung Puting Nationwide Park. Debra continues her conservation carry out by way of the Atlantis Blue Enterprise Basis precisely the place she money marine conservation assignments and mentors conservationists within the area.&#13
Debra acquired her B.A. in Biology from Scripps Increased training and her M.A. in Instructional Engineering from San Diego State Faculty.