Francesca Gundrum Email & Phone Number

Falmouth, Maine, United States

Advancing Maine Audubon’s mission by developing, influencing, and advocating for strong wildlife and wildlife habitat policies. Responsible for setting Maine Audubon’s policy agenda and lobbying on behalf of Maine Audubon’s agenda at the state and federal level before the legislative and executive branches.

Falmouth, Maine, United States

Responsible for supporting Maine Conservation Voters and Maine Conservation Alliance's missions, strategic plans, and priorities ensuring that MCV/MCA is a prominent and respected voice on environmental issues and politics in Maine. Plays a pivotal role in engaging media and works closely with policy, political, organizing, and development staff to strategize, plan and implement communications tactics that elevate the identity of the organizations, engaging Maine people in MCV/A's work, and forwards their policies and campaigns. Specifically:•Develops and executes organizational and campaign messaging that drives conservation policy and campaign wins;•Serves as primary point of contact for the media, drafts press releases, statements, and opinion pieces, and organizes and executes press conferences and other earned media events; •Serves as the lead staff for the creation of video, digital and printed communications materials. This includes working with outside vendors. Products include: MCV’s annual Environmental Scorecard, organizational videos, impact reports, and campaign materials;•Generates creative new ways to mobilize MCV’s membership digitally to influence policymakers and win campaigns. Includes overseeing digital content, growth, and engagement for social media, organizational websites, and working with development staff to create online campaigns to achieve fundraising goals;•Cultivates and fosters relationships with key spokespeople and communications staff from partner organizations and determines how the organizations can best bring our communications expertise and resources to advance coalition efforts;•Manages EveryAction database and its full suite of capabilities;•Develops annual goals, metrics, and work plans;•Evaluates and tracks communications results, and helps develop strategies to improve performance.

Falmouth, Maine, United States

Responsible for locating nests, erecting fencing, tracking nest and fledgling success, monitoring predation, managing social media, fielding TV and news media interviews, conducting educational outreach activities and programs, newsletter development, report writing, supervising project interns and volunteers, and negotiating and implementing management agreements with both private and public landowners.

Portland, Maine Area

My research involved human dimensions of deer management and deer feeding in New Brunswick and Maine. I was responsible for leading data collection, project management, database creation/input, analysis, and report writing for the New Brunswick, Canada and Maine human-deer interactions studies.

Orono, Me

I completed my MS in Wildlife Ecology in the the Human Dimensions of Wildlife Conservation Lab with the Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Conservation Biology. My research involved exploring public perceptions of the controversial 2004 and 2014 bear hunting referendums in Maine via newspaper content analysis, questionnaire, and semi-structured interviews with key stakeholders.

Bar Harbor, Me

Responsible for guiding whale watching tours, observing marine mammal behavior and identifying individual whales, educating passengers about anthropogenic effects on marine ecosystems, assisting in local research efforts and marine mammal biopsy cruises, and assisting NOAA with stranding operations.

Hanover, Nh

Responsible for encouraging environmental advocacy efforts by assisting regional organizers in Hanover area, overseeing grassroots organizing operations, building and maintaining strategic and tactical relationships with key stakeholders and local communities, recruiting, training, and managing student volunteers and organizers.

College Of The Atlantic

Responsible for photographing, observing, and analyzing cetaceans in the Gulf of Maine, inputting identification photos and behavioral data, observing cetacean migration at a NOAA offshore research station, participating in pinniped stranding operations, and handling lines on both research and commercial vessels

Balule Nature Reserve In Greater Kruger National Park, South Africa

Responsible for monitoring rhino populations via VHF radio telemetry, researching elephant population dynamics, analyzing camera trap capture data, classifying tree species and scores of damage over time, removing invasive plant species, responding to poaching incidents and fence alarms, and conducting a personal research project on the need for artificial waterhole provisioning within BNR.

Environmental Studies

Activities and Societies: Dartmouth Women's Lacrosse 2013-2016, Cobra Women's Society Member, Divest Dartmouth Organizer, Sigma Delta.

M.Sc. In Wildlife Ecology, Human Dimensions Of Wildlife Conservation

High School Diploma