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| TIM
MERRIMAN Executive Director |
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Tim delivers a keynote address promoting interpretation as an international peace-keeping device at the 2005 National Interpreters Workshop in Mobile, Alabama. |
| Tim
Merriman has been the executive director of the National Association
for Interpretation (NAI) since 1995. Tim’s career started as
environmental programs director at Southern Illinois University's Touch
of Nature near Carbondale, Illinois, from 1969 to 1972. Following
that he was a ranger/interpreter at Giant
City State Park in southern Illinois from 1972 to 1980. From
1980 to 1993 he was executive director of The Greenway and Nature
Center of Pueblo in Colorado. He has also worked as director of conservation
for Bat Conservation International (BCI) in Austin, Texas, and served
as manager of research and innovations at Tennessee Valley Authority’s
Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area in Kentucky. His educational background includes a B.S. in zoology with a secondary teaching certificate, an MA in botany (aquatic ecology), and a Ph.D. in speech/communications from Southern Illinois University. He has taught for 25 years as an adjunct professor with University of Southern Colorado, Regis University, and Colorado State University. Tim has published more than 100 articles and papers in the areas of interpretation, environmental education, fundraising, nonprofit organizational management, and natural history. His many professional awards include being named NAI Fellow in 1987 after serving as the organization's president from 1985 to 1987. He is co-author of two books, Personal Interpretation: Connecting your Audience to Heritage Resourcees and Managing Interpretive Sites. Tim lives in Fort Collins, Colorado, and enjoys reading books, raising bonsai trees and playing bluegrass mandolin. He can be contacted at naiexec@aol.com. Find Tim on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/people/Tim-Merriman/1078061973 |
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