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Message preview	Hi there, You are invited to a Zoom webinar. When: Mar 8, 2023 11:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Topic: Celebration of Life- Carol Gracie (1941 - 2021): Interpreter of Nature's Stories Register in advance for this webinar: https://nybg-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_tfJbCAi9QOi1g8JZt73WEQ After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. ---------- Webinar Speakers Jennifer Bernstein (CEO & The William C. Steere Sr. President @NYBG) Jennifer Bernstein is a proven leader with exceptional management experience in fundraising and board development for prominent cultural, educational, and environmental organizations. She leads the world-renowned New York Botanical Garden, as the institution’s CEO and William C. Steere Sr. President. Jennifer’s leadership is driving fiscal, reputational, and programmatic growth at NYBG. Since joining the Garden in 2021, she has launched a new strategic and comprehensive master site planning process that will revitalize more than 100 acres of NYBG property, welcomed five new trustees to NYBG’s Board of Trustees, and helped solidify the institution’s financial position. Jacquelyn Kallunki (Curator Emeritus @NYBG) Dr. Jacquelyn Kallunki spent her 35-year career at the New York Botanical Garden, and since her retirement as Associate Director and Curator of the Herbarium in 2014, she continues her research there. These three decades also encompassed the long friendship she and Carol Gracie shared, enjoying birding, hiking, camping, skiing, and just hanging out. Margaret Roach (@NYBG) Margaret Roach, who gardens in rural Columbia County, N.Y., has been a leading garden writer for more than 30 years—at “Martha Stewart Living,” “Newsday,” and in three books. Since April 2020, she has been the garden columnist for “The New York Times,” where she began her journalism career. She is also the creator of A Way to Garden dot com (and a weekly podcast and book by the same name) where she has interviewed Carol Gracie about the natural history of wildflowers. Tatyana Lobova Dr. Tatyana Lobova spent seven post-doctoral years at The New York Botanical Garden, where she conducted research on bat-plant interactions in Neotropical rain forests. Much of her fieldwork took place in French Guiana often in company with Carol Gracie and Scott Mori. Her studies were supported by several federal and private conservation initiatives and have been featured in National Geographic Magazine, Bats Magazine, and on National Public Radio. Since 2007, Dr. Lobova has been on the faculty of Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, where she currently holds a position of Master Lecturer and University Distinguished Teacher at the Department of Biological Sciences. Hella McVay Hella McVay was born in Berlin and educated in mathematics at the Free University of Berlin, Hella taught mathematics for 25 years and was the founding chair of the mathematics department at Stuart Country Day School in Princeton. For five years, she was assistant to the president at Siemen’s RTL. She was a founder of the Whole Earth Center, the first organic food store in the Garden State, and a dedicated volunteer for Planned Parenthood from which she received the Margaret Sanger Award twice. She is an explorer, photographer, painter, and writer. Dr. Amy Berkov Dr. Berkov is a tropical ecologist who made a mid-life career change from art to science by obtaining her B.F.A. degree at the University of Colorado-Denver and her Ph.D. in Biology at City University of New York. Catalysts for this change included a Tropical Biology class at the New York Botanical Garden with Carol Gracie and Scott Mori, followed by one of their expeditions to French Guiana, where Dr. Berkov subsequently spent a year conducting her thesis research. She is now wrapping up 21 years as a member of the Biology faculty at City College of New York, where she studies the evolutionary and community ecology of Neotropical wood-boring beetles, especially those associated with trees in the Brazil nut family. Scott McVay Scott McVay graduated from Princeton University in English literature, served three years in the US Army's Counter Intelligence Corps in Berlin, and then returned to administrative positions at Princeton. Later, he was executive director of the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation and the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, the 16th president of the Chautauqua Institution, and a member of the board of many organizations focused on art, science, and education. McVay's fascination with aquatic mammals led him to do research on dolphin cognition and to serve on the U. S. delegation to the International Whaling Commission. With his wife, he discovered and described the song of the humpback whale, which became an anthem for whale conservation. He is the author of poems, scientific papers, and his memoir Surprise Encounters with Artists and Scientists, Whales and Other Livings Things. Together the McVays joined two of Carol‘s ecotours—to Trinidad and Italy.

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