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Andrea Kavanagh

Director of The Pew Charitable Trusts’ work to protect penguins and the Southern Ocean

Andrea Kavanagh directs Pew’s global penguin and Southern Ocean conservation work. Kavanagh joined Pew in January 2008, as manager of the Marine Aquaculture Campaign, and later managed the Antarctic Krill Conservation Project, and the Protecting the Deep Sea Campaign.

For the past 19 years, she has worked as a communications specialist and campaign director on a variety of environmental issues, including sustainable seafood, global climate change and national legislation to regulate toxic chemicals.

Before joining Pew, Kavanagh was a campaign director at the National Environmental Trust (NET).

Kavanagh holds a bachelor’s degree in environmental science and policy from the University of Vermont.

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