Your purchase of a ticket to Program 13 includes 5 films/extras.
Sponsored by The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University
Director David Garrett Byars (Public Trust) talks with Maura McCarthy, PhD (Executive Director of Fairmount Park Conservancy) about national and local public lands.
Executive Director, Fairmount Park Conservancy
Maura joined Fairmount Park Conservancy as its Executive Director on November 1, 2019. For the past 13 years, Maura has been the executive director of Friends of the Wissahickon, Philadelphia’s only professionally staffed Park Friends group, harnessing over 10,000 hours of volunteer engagement each year to support a National Recreation Trail and an 1,800-acre National Natural Landmark. A native to the Philadelphia region, McCarthy has a strong record of public service. She currently serves on the Green City, Clean Waters Steering Committee for Philadelphia Water Department and was a member of Mayor Jim Kenney’s Transition Team on Environment & Sustainability.
She holds a Doctorate of Philosophy in Social Anthropology from the University of Oxford and a Bachelor of Arts from New York University. She also received a Certificate in Performance Measurement for Effective Management of Nonprofit Organizations from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.
- Runtime10 minutes
Your purchase of a ticket to Program 13 includes 5 films/extras.
Sponsored by The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University
Director David Garrett Byars (Public Trust) talks with Maura McCarthy, PhD (Executive Director of Fairmount Park Conservancy) about national and local public lands.
Executive Director, Fairmount Park Conservancy
Maura joined Fairmount Park Conservancy as its Executive Director on November 1, 2019. For the past 13 years, Maura has been the executive director of Friends of the Wissahickon, Philadelphia’s only professionally staffed Park Friends group, harnessing over 10,000 hours of volunteer engagement each year to support a National Recreation Trail and an 1,800-acre National Natural Landmark. A native to the Philadelphia region, McCarthy has a strong record of public service. She currently serves on the Green City, Clean Waters Steering Committee for Philadelphia Water Department and was a member of Mayor Jim Kenney’s Transition Team on Environment & Sustainability.
She holds a Doctorate of Philosophy in Social Anthropology from the University of Oxford and a Bachelor of Arts from New York University. She also received a Certificate in Performance Measurement for Effective Management of Nonprofit Organizations from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.
- Runtime10 minutes