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Career Profiles
Sterling Zumbrunn is CI's image guru. Sterling manages CI's ever-growing collections through a digital image library, to catalog photographs, maps, logos, and any other visual images. Travel to CI's field sites to photographs and documents CI's conservation projects is also part of his job. Sterling received his B.A. in Photography from Princeton University. He began working for CI in the Development Department as an intern fundraising for the organization five years ago. Prior to working at CI, Sterling taught photography at a private high school. During his early childhood years growing up in New Jersey, Sterling learned about the value of conservation. He remembers playing close to his home in a forested area that was later developed into a strip mall. "The loss of that pristine area was so unfortunate," Sterling recalls. Since then, Sterling become a strong advocate of conservation and has developed an interest in the Pacific Northwest logging issues as well as international marine conservation issues. One of the reasons Sterling enjoys his job is because it enables him to incorporate his conservation ethic and his visual talent, which conveys powerful images in supporting CI's mission in conserving global biodiversity.Sterling's advice for people who desire to work in the field of conservation is to "not give up your dream." If you want to become a conservationist and you have passion and creativity, then nothing can inhibit you in becoming whatever it is you seek.
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