Vera Leopold

Grants Manager/Development Associate

Vera Leopold joined TWI in May 2010. Her prior work included grantwriting and fundraising for non-profits, as well as bird surveying throughout Illinois for the Illinois Natural History Survey’s Critical Trends Assessment Program. She is an avid birder and strongly committed to conservation. Vera has a B.A. in English from Illinois Wesleyan University and recently completed her M.A. in environmental studies from the University of Illinois at Springfield. Her graduate project was a feasibility study for a small-scale wetland restoration.

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