| Tony Robyn, executive director of the Wildcat Glades Conservation & Audubon Center in Joplin has accepted the position of Audubon Missouri state executive director and vice-president. Robin McAlester, development director for the center, will succeed him.
Robyn successfully led the development and construction of Audubon Missouri's first nature center in Joplin, Wildcat Glades, a six year collaborative effort with the city of Joplin and Missouri Department of Conservation. He will focus on broader conservation issues in Missouri and will administrate a suite of programs including Audubon’s new Wildcat Glades Conservation & Audubon Center in Joplin, the Cole Camp Prairies Project, and an emerging center project in St. Louis, an estimated $8 million project.
McAlester successfully managed the capital campaign and marketing program for the center. She graduated from Missouri Southern State University with a B.A. in communications. Throughout her career she worked in development and marketing for several nonprofit organizations including the United Way of Southwest Missouri and did marketing for St. John's Medical Center.
Robyn and McAlester will assume their new roles beginning March 17, 2008 when the official Audubon Missouri state office will be relocated from Columbia, MO to Joplin as part of a reorganization. Audubon sill will maintain a regional office in Columbia led by Roger Still, former state executive director. Known as the Mississippi River Initiative, the office will focus on bird conservation and wildlife habitat issues in the states along the Mississippi River from the Dakotas to the Louisiana coast.
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