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VENUES STILL WAITING FOR CASH AFTER LOBBYING VICTORY: When the pandemic hit last year, concert and performing arts venues banded together to form the National Independent Venue Association, which spent months lobbying Congress to help them. They succeeded in December: Congress included a grant program for shuttered venues in the Covid relief.
Audubon Pennsylvania merged with Maryland-DC unit
Updated Feb 25, 2021;
The National Audubon Society has merged Audubon Pennsylvania and Audubon Maryland-DC into the Audubon Mid-Atlantic regional office, under new executive director Suzanne Biemiller.
Biemiller, who is now also vice president at the national organization, joined Audubon after founding the policy-focused consulting firm Highland Strategies and serving as first deputy chief of staff in the administration of former Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter.
According to Audubon, in her new post Biemiller “will build on the successful on-the-ground efforts in Pennsylvania and Maryland to develop a large-scale conservation vision for the Mid-Atlantic, a critically important region for bird species traveling along the Atlantic Flyway.”
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PHILADELPHIA & BALTIMORE – Today, the National Audubon Society announced a strategic merger between two storied state programs – Audubon Pennsylvania and Audubon Maryland-DC, introducing the
Audubon Mid-Atlantic regional office. Suzanne Biemiller has been named the new executive director of the new regional office. Biemiller joins Audubon after founding the policy-focused consulting firm, Highland Strategies, and a notable tenure in former Philadelphia Mayor Michael A. Nutter’s administration as First Deputy Chief of Staff for the City of Philadelphia.
“My lifelong passion for hiking and canoeing has given me a deep appreciation for the importance of preserving and restoring land and waterways for birds and other wildlife,” said Biemiller. “Audubon’s century-long mission to protect birds inspires me, and I’m eager to dive into a new chapter of conservation across the Mid-Atlantic. With the new Audubon Mid-Atlantic, our growing wingspan through