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Rehabilitation Hospital Manager and Director of Avian Care from 2013 to 2019. Through consulta-
tion with other facilities and under her direction, BRC dramatically improved their success with
difficult species such as towhees and House Finches. In 2019, she became Executive Director.

Liz Koutsos earned a BS in Animal Science from the University of Maryland, and MS and PhD
degrees in Nutrition from University of California, Davis. Her research focused on interactions
between nutrition and immunity in a variety of avian species. After serving as faculty at California
Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, Liz joined Mazuri Exotic Animal Nutrition in 2006,
as the lead nutritionist and then as Director. In 2016, she became an independent consultant,
focusing on the nutrition of aquatic animals, elephants, insects, dogs, and cats. In 2017, Liz began
working with EnviroFlight, the first U.S. commercial producer of dried black soldier fly larvae,
meal, and oil, and assumed the role of President in 2018. She is an Adjunct Professor at North
Carolina State University, and a Smithsonian Research Associate.
Romy Klusener has been working at the Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of
Coastal Birds (SANCCOB) in Cape Town, South Africa since 2012 and is experienced in seabird
rehabilitation as well as the incubation, hatching, and hand rearing of seabirds to be released back
into the wild. These include African Penguins, Cape Cormorants, Bank Cormorants, Hartlaub’s
Gulls, Kelp Gulls, African Black Oystercatchers, and Northern Rockhopper Penguins. She has also
worked as a seabird rehabilitator and cared for a variety of seabirds.

Nicole LaGreco graduated from Arcadia University with a degree in Animal Behavior. Her inter-
est in hand‐rearing birds began as a keeper at Zoo Atlanta, when she had the opportunity to rear
several species. She was able to further her passion by joining the San Diego Zoo’s Avian Propagation
Center team in 2006, and worked her way up to her current position, Animal Care Manager. She
has been involved in several conservation projects including head‐starting the critically endan-
gered Mangrove Finch. The Avian Propagation Center has a long history of successfully hand‐rear-
ing hornbills and members of the order Coraciiformes.

Jennifer Linander earned dual BS degrees in Environmental/Marine Biology and Zoology with a
minor in Wildlife Biology from Humboldt State University. She has spent more than 10 years volunteer-
ing and working in wildlife rehabilitation caring for myriad species of birds and mammals, ranging
from songbirds to pelicans and squirrels to bears. Most notably she spent over four years working at
International Bird Rescue’s San Francisco Bay Delta Center, where she earned the position of Senior
Rehabilitation Technician, caring for and raising injured and orphaned aquatic birds.

Isabel Luevano has been a wildlife rehabilitator for nine years working exclusively with aquatic
avian species. She holds a BS in Marine Biology from Sonoma State University and is the Wildlife
Center Manager for International Bird Rescue’s San Francisco Bay Delta Center, where 2000–4000
wild aquatic birds of all ages undergo rehabilitation annually. She has presented on the care
and raising of young aquatic avian species as well as created multiple protocols for raising the less
common species of aquatic bird chicks International Bird Rescue receives.

Jessika Madison‐Kennedy has been working with birds for 15 years and has been a wildlife
rehabilitator for 12 of those years. Jessika managed the avian nursery at the Wildlife Rehabilitation
Center of Minnesota from 2010 to 2017 and currently acts as their Avian Outreach manager,
collaborating with local vet tech programs and creating opportunities for students to learn how to