Terry Root named to Audubon Society board

TERRY ROOT, senior fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment, has been named to the board of directors for the National Audubon Society. Root is among six prominent leaders in science, conservation, finance and education who were appointed to the organization’s board at its January meeting.
Root also was recently named to the board of the Defenders of Wildlife, an organization for which she has served as a science adviser.
In addition, she is the first recipient of the Bay Area Air Quality Management District‘s Climate Leadership Award, established in honor of her late husband, Stephen Schneider, a Stanford biology professor and climate heavyweight who died last summer. The award will recognize individuals who have made a lasting impact on climate efforts in the nine-county Bay Area region.