Above: Safina Center Staff. Photo by the Safina Center
about
Tackling climate change; conserving living things; ensuring healthy, just human communities—or creating any necessary change—is not possible, unless people value the changes needed to let the living world survive, and humanity thrive.
That is the unique work of the Safina Center.
The Safina Center is a 501(c)3 nonprofit based on Long Island, N.Y.
The environmental movement needs thinking that disrupts the indifference obstructing justice for wildlife, the environment, and people. Our movement needs ideas that exhilarate allies while successfully insisting that governments better protect air, climate, oceans, water, lands, wild species, and humanity, and are grounded in truth, transparency, and science.
Our Staff, Senior Fellows, and Junior Fellows create those ideas and spread them through high-profile work that is published or broadcast through top channels and major publishers, and applied directly in communities. The Safina Center brings inspiring creators and connectors together. We foster a sense of community and space for potential collaborations. We work to change the world. We know we make a difference. People tell us we do. And we have results to show.
You can learn more about the development and purpose of our Fellowship Programs here.
We are also pleased to have a wide circle of Creative Affiliates, exceptionally creative people who share and amplify one another’s messages and work, and the work of the Safina Center.
MISSION
At the Safina Center we advance the case for Life on Earth by fusing scientific understanding, emotional connection, and a moral call to action. We create an original blend of science, art, and literature in the form of award-winning books and articles, scientific research, photography, films, sound-art, and spoken words. We bear first-hand witness and then we speak up, we speak out, and we teach. Our work is designed to inspire and engage people to devote their time and energies to conservation of wild things and wild places. Our creative works have proven their power to change people’s lives and their view of the world.
our founding
The Safina Center was founded by MacArthur “genius fellowship" winning ecologist and author Dr. Carl Safina in 2003.
our Board
Carl Safina, President
B. Eric Graham, Chairman of the Board
William G. Miller, Treasurer
Rainer Judd
Sven -Olof Lindblad
Jane F. Ross