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The Nature Conservancy in Pennsylvania
Welcomes New Staff Members
 

Harrisburg, PA—The Nature Conservancy in Pennsylvania recently welcomed four new staff members to help the global nonprofit conservation organization in its work to save Pennsylvania’s threatened lands and waters and the plants, animals and natural communities that rely on these natural areas to survive. Josh Parrish of Mechanicsburg, Pa. recently joined the Conservancy as director of finance and administration. Todd Sampsell of Camp Hill, Pa. is the new director of stewardship. Patrick von Keyserling, Halifax, Pa., and Lynn Wodell of Harrisburg have joined the Conservancy as director of marketing and communications, and director of protection, respectively.

Prior to joining the Conservancy, Josh Parrish was the director of finance and operations for the School of Social Work at the University of Pittsburgh. Parrish holds a bachelor’s in professional accountancy from Pennsylvania State University and is a Certified Management Accountant through the Institute of Management Accountants.  He has a personal commitment to conservation and enjoys hiking, traveling, hunting and fishing.

Todd Sampsell of Camp Hill, Pa. has a decade of experience in conservation and environmental work with both non-profits and governmental agencies. Sampsell has a scientific background in landscape ecology and aquatic research. Most recently, he was executive director of the Central Pennsylvania Conservancy and prior to that he directed landscape conservation programs for the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy.  

Patrick von Keyserling of Halifax, Pa. has more than 15 years of experience in journalism and public relations. Before joining the Conservancy, he was senior director of communications for the American Heart Association's Pennsylvania Delaware Affiliate.

Lynn Wodell has more than 20 years of land protection experience in Colorado’s Denver metro area where her work focused on local government open space programs, parks and trails protection. Her expertise in natural resource protection includes wildlife habitat, riparian areas and floodplains as well as agricultural lands and historic structures.

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The Nature Conservancy is a leading international, nonprofit organization that preserves plants, animals and natural communities representing the diversity of life on Earth by protecting the lands and waters they need to survive.  To date, the Conservancy and its nearly one million members have been responsible for the protection of more than 15 million acres in the United States—including more than 40,000 acres in Pennsylvania —and have helped preserve more than 102 million acres in Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia and the Pacific.  For more information, visit nature.org/pennsylvania.