2023 Board of Directors Elections
As a voting member of the Adventure Travel Conservation Fund, your company may vote to add two (2) new member-elected seats to our Board of Directors, with terms to begin on January 1, 2024. Please review the brief bios below of the following candidates who have been nominated to fill these positions:
Amy Brown
Deirdre Campbell
Maria Jose Andrade
Once you have reviewed the information, please complete and submit your ballot by November 24, 2023. Please note that each ATCF member company may submit only one ballot.
The ATCF strives to represent the needs of the adventure travel and outdoor industry as much as possible. We hope that the candidates presented on the ballot and elected to the Board of Directors, will help to represent your priorities as they relate to ATCF’s strategic direction our conservation goals.
Amy Brown, independent Consultant
Amy Brown has experience in the outdoor gear and adventure travel industries working in marketing, communications, and partnerships. She has also volunteered with the ATCF for five years as a member of the outreach committee and was involved in the launch of the nonprofit while at ExOfficio. She recently completed her master’s and Ph.D. in Leadership Development and during that time she completed a needs assessment for the ATCF to support the exploration and decision-making of topics related to the direction of the nonprofit. Amy is experienced in running campaigns and is a well-spoken professional capable of clearly communicating messages and generating audience interest and engagement. She developed these skills at Brooks Running, ExOfficio, and then with the Adventure Travel Trade Association. Over the last five years in her doctoral program, Amy gained skills in program implementation and evaluation related to behavior change initiatives. This is important for reaching audiences who may be less aware of the value and significance of the ATCF's work and will help increase awareness and adoption of the nonprofit’s initiatives.
Deirdre Campbell, tartanbond Communications Ltd.
After 10 years working in hotel and agency PR, Deirdre launched her own company in 2001, while undertaking her MBA. At the time, sustainable business practices were just being taught, but the concepts captured me immediately and she began her career in sustainable and regenerative tourism, launching the BC Sustainable Tourism Collective in time for the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Winter Games, was a founding director with the Global Ecotourism Network (GEN) and became very involved in Indigenous tourism. The skills she hopes to bring to the board are her knowledge of sustainable and regenerative tourism (she is the co-founder of the IMPACT Summit for sustainable tourism in Canada now in its 7th year), and her communications expertise. tartanbond is now 24 years old and has merged with a UK firm in 2017 making it a truly global company.
Maria Jose Andrade, Tierra del volcan
Maria’s work history started in 1999 co-creating and developing Tierra del Volcán, a tourism operator specialized in adventure travel in Ecuador. Together, with her husband Jorge Pérez, they developed a project in which tourism became a model of sustainable development and an alternative to extensive agriculture practices in the haciendas we run in the buffer zone of Cotopaxi National Park. Having grown up in the countryside very close to nature; traveled abroad for 18 months at the age of 17, to serve as a volunteer and to explore remote places on a solo journey; with her university education in Liberal Arts and Anthropology, Maria was able to combine my passions at the work that she performed: nature, travel and culture.