Staff

President

David Helvarg is President of the Blue Frontier Campaign (www.bluefront.org) and the author of four books, Blue Frontier, The War Against the Greens, 50 Ways to Save the Ocean and Rescue Warriors. He’s editor of the Ocean and Coastal Conservation Guide, organizer of several ‘Blue Vision’ Summits for ocean activists, and winner of Coastal Living Magazine’s 2005 Leadership Award and the 2007 Herman Melville literary Award. Helvarg worked as a war correspondent in Northern Ireland and Central America, covered a range of issues from military science to the AIDS epidemic, and reported from every continent including Antarctica. An award-winning journalist, he produced more than 40 broadcast documentaries for PBS, The Discovery Channel, and others. His print work has appeared in publications including The New York Times, LA Times, Smithsonian, Popular Science, Sierra, and The Nation. He’s done radio work for Marketplace, AP radio, and Pacifica. He’s led workshops for journalists in Poland, Turkey, Tunisia, Slovakia and Washington DC. He is a licensed Private Investigator, body-surfer and scuba diver.

Associate Director

Viviana M. Jiménez is the Associate Director of the Blue Frontier Campaign and has been part of the BFC team since early 2008, working as a consultant and helping coordinate the 2009 Blue Vision Summit. She comes to BFC after serving as Regional Representative for North America for the United Nations Environment Programme / Convention on Migratory Species (UNEP/CMS), where she led the Washington office in seeking more US, Canadian and Mexican participation in UNEP / CMS activities. Her work helped broaden dialogue with North American institutions, facilitated the creation of partnerships, promoted financial contributions to international conservation efforts, and aided more international collaboration on migratory species conservation. Viviana served as Chief Financial Officer and Senior Program Officer at The Ocean Foundation – a Washington-based marine conservation funder – leading the financial and programmatic growth of the organization by more than 300 percent in 3 years. Viviana also worked at the Earth Policy Institute researching, analyzing, and writing on key environmental and sustainable development issues alongside Lester R. Brown. Viviana received her degree from Universidad Externado de Colombia in Bogotá, Colombia. She continued her studies at American University and Georgetown University in Washington, DC. Viviana currently serves as an advisor to the Boyd N. Lyon Sea Turtle Fund at The Ocean Foundation.