Meet our passionate African penguin lover volunteer board members and advisors.
Board
Kruger grew up near Cape Town, South Africa. Kruger is a Climate Reality Leader, Texas Master Naturalist, and data scientist with over 20 years of IT experience. Kruger handles our website backend, including our custom CRM, metrics, data analysis, donor relations, and videography. Kruger holds a Master of Science in Data Analytics.
Shannon is a native Texan, Climate Reality Leader, Texas Master Naturalist, and learning experience design consultant and writer with over 11 years of technical writing experience and 20+ years of accounting experience. Shannon handles social media, writing, accounting, our website, and photography. Shannon holds a Master of Science in Learning Experience Design and Educational Technology.
Shelby is a strategist at a top advertising company in Austin, Texas. She handles board records, advises on marketing and social media, and is part of our accounting internal controls. Shelby holds a Bachelor of Science in Advertising, cum laude.
Board Advisors
Pinkey is a fundraising, conservation, and administrative manager, environmental educator, and founder of the Deep Blue Ambassadors program for school children in Gansbaai, South Africa.
Xolani is known as South Africa’s penguin whisperer. He has worked with African penguins in South Africa for over 16 years, first in the Eastern Cape and more recently in the Western Cape.