Nicholas Sorenson
Director of Marketing and Communications |
Nick directs Wildlife Alliance's online and offline communications and media operations. Working closely with the development department and Wildlife Alliance's field staff, he is responsible for primary conceptualization, planning, and implementing fundraising and constituent relationship development programs through the Wildlife Alliance website. In his capacity as Director of Communications, he also oversees a small communications staff to manage multiple special projects, which include marketing, media outreach, special event coordination, as well as management of the Washington headquarters in absence of the U.S. Director.
Nick's prior experience includes work with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in Bangkok, Natural Resource Management studies at the Asian Institute of Technology and defense research and development for the Mistral Group in Bethesda, MD. Nick grew up in Cairo, Egypt and has lived in Ghana, Morocco, Thailand and the U.K. He received a bachelor's degree in Political Theory and Constitutional Democracy from James Madison College, Michigan State University and is currently working towards his Masters Certificate in Conservation Criminology, also from MSU.
His professional interests and aspirations are to develop innovative turn-key solutions to prevent and interdict environmental wildlife crime by utilizing state of the art military technologies, including remote sensing and thermal imaging techniques (FLIR, FOPEN, GEO-lock),and GPS/GIS geo-tagging and monitoring (of species, forests and illegal activities) to enhance the environmental protection initiatives of some of the most threatened rainforest and species habitats in the world.
