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I am Founder and CEO of A-Team For Wildlife, a non-profit education organization serving youth saving endangered species. I created the Award-winning International A-Team of prodigies of conservation- the world's leading youth activists in wildlife conservation. A-Team For Wildlife provides School Assembly Programs and Speaking opportunities on Endangered Species, and fosters Local A-Teams of students for educational and conservation activities.
Currently producing the Jungle Deep podcast, "Providing a voice for the conservation community". This fun and wide-ranging program delivers " Both the science and the romance of the jungle." www.JungleDeep.org.
Founder, former managing director, and lead presenter of the Tropical Rainforest Museum and Tropical Rainforest Expo, of the San Francisco Bay Area. Curator of hundreds of exotic animals, plants, and cultural artifacts. Presented nearly 1,000 school assemblies and created exhibits at 100 fairs and festivals.
Chaired the Earth Day Family Festival for 2 years in San Jose. Received commendations, Volunteer of the Year Award, and a Mayoral Commendation for my environmental education work.
Skills
• Digital story-telling: audio (Podcasting), video content, and television production.
• Branding, internet marketing, social media, media distribution.
• Screen Personality, Voice Talent.
• Team leadership/project management.
• Authoring, script-writing.
Founder, CEO @ The non-profit environmental education organization who serves youth saving endangered species. Home to the award-winning International A-Team: the elite team of the #1 youth conservationists in the world. Steward to Local A-Teams - the fun way for all children to help save endangered species. Training the next generation of conservationists. Funding current efforts to preserve endangered species. www.A-TeamForWildlife.org
LinkedIn new company page (follow) https://www.linkedin.com/company/a-team-for-wildlife?trk=biz-companies-cym From September 2013 to Present (2 years 4 months) Host, Producer @ Award-wining Podcast - a free, weekly internet radio show about tropical rain forest conservation and biodiversity preservation, all wrapped up in fun, juicy, delicious American Jungle Culture of the past and present. Providing both the science and romance of the jungle, guests include conservationists, biologists, climatologists, corporate CEOs, jungle explorers, authors, filmmakers, and even Tarzan. The world's only on-going rainforest conservation podcast.
www.JungleDeep.org. From July 2012 to Present (3 years 6 months) Producer, Voice Talent @ New Media production including audio, video and TV production. Some website design and social media services available. Voice-over and narration services available. Recent project is the production of the Jungle Deep podcast. From June 2012 to Present (3 years 7 months) Founder, Director @ Ornamental Water Feature Academy is an Internet community and school for water feature enthusiasts - pond owners, pond construction professionals, landscape contractors, landscape architects, and more. From June 2011 to September 2012 (1 year 4 months) Stockton, California AreaHost, Producer @ Weekly Internet radio program about the science behind new pet products. Now cancelled but still distributed to over 35 million pet enthusiasts through Pet Life Radio. From January 2012 to June 2012 (6 months) Host, Producer @ Internet radio program about ornamental water features - the only such program currently in production on the web. Now cancelled, but still distributed to over 35 million pet enthusiasts through Pet Life Radio. From November 2011 to 2012 (1 year) Owner @ Video production, family history documentaries, produced award-winning TV travel show about the Central Sierra of California, "Calaveras Gold". From 2008 to 2011 (3 years) Producer @ Proprietor, Producer, and Chief Editor. From 2008 to 2011 (3 years) member @ From 2005 to 2006 (1 year) Proprietor, Consultant @ Specialist and consultant to the landscape industry in construction of ornamental water features. From 1980 to 2006 (26 years) Founder, Director @ An environmental education organization providing public exhibits, event exhibits, and nearly 1,000 school assemblies about the tropical rain forests of the world. Serving Central California. Sponsored in part by IBM, National Semiconductor, and Seagate. For detailed information go to www.JungleDeep.org, and choose "Tropical Rainforest Museum" in the directory at the top of the page. From January 1993 to September 1999 (6 years 9 months) Co-Founder, Director @ 25/50 Coalition was a nonprofit coalition of environmental and United Nations organizations working together to coordinate and amplify events to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Earth Day and the 50th anniversary of the United Nations. From February 1993 to March 1995 (2 years 2 months) Founder, Director @ A non-profit environmental education organization providing Earth Day Festival support, community recycling and cleanups, school assemblies, pubic presentations. From 1992 to 1994 (2 years)
Biology @ Palomar CollegePre-veterinary Science @ West Valley College Ken Jones, CEO, Wildlife Advocate, Producer is skilled in: Blogger, Video Production, Public Speaking, Voice Acting, Storytelling, Conservation Issues, Social Media Coach, New Media, Television, Videography, Podcasting, New Media Production, Wildlife educator, Conservation, Biodiversity
Websites:
http://www.JungleDeep.org,
http://www.A-TeamForWildlife.org