Personal Remembrances
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Past Recipients of Rainforest Alliance Sustainable Standard-Setter and Green Globe Awards |
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Below you will find links to personal remembrances from friends and colleagues who have inspired and mentored the Rainforest Alliance over the years. The individuals are all people who have helped make the organization what it is today.
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Tensie Whelan
Rainforest Alliance President
Tensie Whelan has held a wide variety of jobs in her career -- reporter, editor, consultant, nonprofit executive -- with a common theme: passionate activism on behalf of the environment... |
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Chris Wille
Rainforest Alliance Chief of Sustainable Agriculture
For the past two decades Chris Wille -- along with his wife Diane Jukofsky, director of communications, marketing and education -- has been a driving force behind the success of the Rainforest Alliance. For most of that time, they have been based in Costa Rica, where Wille heads our sustainable agriculture efforts. |
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Karin Kreider
Deputy Director of the Rainforest Alliance and Director of Sustainable Agriculture
In the beginning I did all of the organizational operations -- finance, accounting, human resources, strategic planning, implementation of programs... |
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George Jaksch
Senior Director of Corporate Responsibility and Public Affairs, Chiquita International
In the fall of 2000, Chiquita Brands International announced that by achieving Rainforest Alliance certification for all its company-owned farms in Latin America and a significant number of the individual producers who sell fruit to the company, it was transforming farm practices and leading the way toward responsible production. |
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Diane Jukofsky
Director of Communications, Marketing and Education
In 1987, Diane Jukofsky and her husband, current Rainforest Alliance chief of sustainable agriculture Chris Wille, had been working for a number of conservation groups. |
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Elysabeth Kleinhans
Founder of the Kleinhans Fellowship for Research in Tropical Non-Timber Forest Products and Longtime Supporter
In 1989, with support from Elysabeth Kleinhans, the Rainforest Alliance began to study the management and use of tropical forest resources including Brazil nuts, fruits and medicinal plants. |
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Ivan Ussach
Founding Member and First SmartWood Director
The Rainforest Alliance convened its very first meeting in 1986 at a Greenwich Village coffee shop... |
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Mauricio Ferro Rettig
Co-Executive Director of Conservación y Desarrollo
The working relationship between the Rainforest Alliance and Conservación y Desarollo started in 1993. |
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Daniel Katz
Founder and Board Chair
Rainforest Alliance founder and board chair Daniel Katz never intended to start a conservation organization. |
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