Communications Director - California/Nevada Region
California/Nevada Office
Office: 213-514-4030
Mobile: 213-610-3177
Email
Annette Kondo develops the communications and media strategies and programs for the California region. Based in the Los Angeles office, Annette joined The Wilderness Society in 2009.
Prior to working for The Wilderness Society, she was the communications manager for the Coalition for Clean Air, a California non-profit. Annette also worked for two decades as a reporter and editor at newspapers in several states, including the Lexington-Herald Leader, the Daily News of Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Times.
Annette has a BA from Occidental College and a MS from the Columbia University School of Journalism.
She was an International Fellow at Columbia, and a Frank Reynolds Memorial Fellow at ABC News in Washington, DC. Her first NGO job was at a refugee camp in Thailand.
Recently Published on Wilderness.org:
San Gabriel Mountains: So close to Los Angeles, yet surprisingly wild!
San Gabriel Mountains Teleconference
An Interview with Ken Burns on The National Parks: America's Best Idea
‘This is America’ unveils stirring connections to national parks
San Gabriel Mountains Teleconference Held
The not-so-endless Mojave Desert: Saving a rare landscape from looming development
Proposed conservation area would preserve some of California's least-trampled terrain
PHOTOS: Berryessa
Fresh Conservation Opportunities In the Golden State
David Edelson from the Wilderness Society
Bill Meadows Written Testimony for California Desert Protection Act
More protections for Southern California forests
California Wilderness: New bills show bi-partisan love of wildlands
Editorial: Preserve Nation's Great Outdoors
Audio from Chaparral Fire Press Conference
Audio from California wildfire radio story
Sen. Barbara Boxer Announces San Diego Wilderness Legislation
