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Over the past three decades, Audrey has helped spearhead collaborative island conservation in Hawaiʻi, across the Pacific, and around the world. During 25 years with The Nature Conservancy, she launched and directed a variety of initiatives and partnerships, including peer learning networks to address priority conservation challenges in the Pacific, and worked with island partners to develop the Island Biodiversity Programme of Work under the UN Convention for Biological Diversity. Audrey helped launch the Global Island Partnership and Hawai`i Green Growth—a multi-sector collaboration to bring together leaders from clean energy, local food, natural resource management, green jobs and education, waste reduction, and smart sustainable communities to achieve the Aloha+ Challenge, Hawaiʻi’s statewide 2030 sustainability goals. She currently serves as Senior Advisor to both initiatives. (Interviewed by Kim Hum, October 2016.)