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Johannah Barry

Johannah E. Barry is the founder and President of Galapagos Conservancy. Her background includes more than thirty years of institutional advancement and organizational development. She has held senior fundraising positions with the World Conservation Union (US), The Wilderness Society, Resources for the Future and served as consultant to the Weyerhaeuser Company Foundation, Henry A. Wallace Institute for Alternative Agriculture, and the Audubon Naturalist Society. Ms. Barry holds a Master’s degree from the University of Virginia.

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Linda Cayot

Dr. Linda Cayot has worked as Galapagos Conservancy’s Science Advisor since 2008. She has been heavily involved in Galapagos conservation for more than 30 years, having first visited Galapagos in 1981 to study giant tortoises for her PhD from Syracuse University. She has stayed involved with the Islands ever since. Linda served as herpetologist of the Charles Darwin Research Station (CDRS) from 1988 to 1998, during which time she supervised both the giant tortoise and land iguana breeding and rearing programs, worked extensively with Lonesome George, the only remaining member of the tortoise subspecies Chelonoidis abingdoni from Pinta Island, and supervised Ecuadorian students studying the endemic reptiles of Galapagos, among many other things. In her final year with the CDRS, Linda coordindated the start of the successful Project Isabela, aimed at ridding Isabela and other islands of feral goats. Linda continues to collaborate with the Galapagos National Park Service in strategizing and planning future conservation efforts for tortoises throughout the islands.

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Lori Ulrich

Lori Ulrich is the Director of Membership and Marketing at Galapagos Conservancy and has worked at GC since 2006. She oversees the messaging and development of all membership-related communications that members receive in their physical mailboxes and virtual inboxes. Lori also ensures that GC's donation processing is smooth, timely, and most importantly, error-free. Prior to GC, Lori spent 6 years working in the New York book publishing industry in various creative and editorial roles. She has a BA in Biological Sciences from Cornell University, and loves that her job allows her to combine her interests in science and conservation with her artistic and creative skills.

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Richard Knab

Richard Knab has focused his attention on education, conservation and sustainable development in Latin America since serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in Honduras (1987-1990), where he worked with small farmers on soil conservation, irrigation and cooperative-related projects. Following Masters studies at the University of Pennsylvania, he began a 10-year stint with Zamorano University in Honduras in various capacities related to project development, fundraising, institutional communications, and strategic planning. Richard has worked with Galapagos Conservancy since 2004 and coordinates our Sustainable Society program and fundraises for all of our programs. He is particularly passionate about opportunities in Galapagos to strengthen formal and non-formal education, civil society, and citizen engagement in conservation. He is pleased to be able to work closely with several Zamorano graduates that he met as students, in particular Carlos Zapata (founder and president of FUNDAR Galapagos) and Orazio Belettinni (founder and president of Grupo Faro).

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