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World-renowned wildlife photographer Joel Sartore will be the keynote speaker at our 41st Annual Luncheon from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Friday, Dec. 3, 2010, at the Hyatt Regency Phoenix. You won’t want to miss this exciting program - stay tuned for more details and mark you calendars to attend.
Two decades with the National Geographic Society have allowed Satore to cover everything from the remote Amazon rain forest to beer-drinking, mountain-racing firefighters in the United Kingdom. Sartore is committed to conservation, especially in the Great Plains where he has lived his whole life. In his time with National Geographic, he has focused on endangered species and land use issues. He is co-founder of the Grassland Foundation, and a founding member of the International League of Conservation Photographers.
Sartore’s latest book, Rare: Portraits of America's Endangered Species, started as a personal project and grew into a three-year effort to document everything from grizzly bears to endangered flies. Rare includes portraits of some of the country's most endangered creatures. Some of them are likely to go extinct without people ever knowing they existed. This thought-provoking picture book shows the reality of the Earth’s vanishing biodiversity and what we stand to lose if we don't act now.
Sartore previous books include Photographing Your Family, Face to Face with Grizzlies and Nebraska: Under a Big Red Sky. Besides the work he has done for National Geographic, he has completed assignments for Time, Life, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated and contributed to numerous book projects. Sartore and his work have been the subject of several national broadcasts including National Geographic’s Explorer, the NBC Nightly News, NPR’s Weekend Edition, CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 and an hour-long PBS documentary. He is also a regular contributor on the CBS Sunday Morning Show with Charles Osgood.
Other Speakers who have been featured at Valley Forward's Annual Luncheon programs include:
· Richard Louv, author of The Last Child in the Woods: Saving our
Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
· Bob Beckel and Cal Thomas, duo authors of the syndicated USA
Today column, Common Ground
· Jamie Clarke, adventurist and author
· Jared Diamond, Pulitzer Prize winning author, scientist and professor
· Larry Winget, a Pitbull of professional development and best-selling
author
· Erin Brockovich, an environmentalist whose life was featured in a
movie
· Jeff Corwin, Animal Planet
· David Breashears, mountaineer and IMAX film producer
· Bruce Babbitt, former Secretary of the Interior and Arizona Governor
· Dr. Mae Jemison, the first female astronaut of color
· Robert Kennedy, Jr., attorney and Riverkeeper
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