Graham Chisholm
As vice president, executive director of Audubon California, Graham Chisholm directs Audubon’s largest state program program, leading a network of 48 local chapters, 45 staff, 10 Audubon sanctuaries and centers and more than 100,000 California supporters and activists. Graham served as Audubon California’s deputy state director and director of conservation from March 2005 to April 2009. While at Audubon, Graham played a leading role in negotiating the Tejon Ranch Conservation Agreement, a landmark deal reached in June 2008 to protect 375 square miles of some of California’s most spectacular wild lands (read Audubon's story here).He previously was the executive director of The Nature Conservancy's California Program from 2001-2004 where he lead the Conservancy’s largest state program and helped secure passage of over $5 billion in conservation funding measures. Prior to coming to California he served as TNC's Nevada state director and director of the Stillwater Marsh-Pyramid Lake Project in Nevada where he pioneered innovative water acquisition strategies to restore wetlands and instream flow.
Chisholm co-founded Great Basin Bird Observatory and coordinated the Nevada Breeding Bird Atlas. In 1996 he also co-founded Great Basin Land and Water, a nonprofit organization that has assisted the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe and the cities of Reno and Sparks and Washoe County in their implementation of a groundbreaking water quality settlement agreement. Chisholm also served as a natural resources assistant to U.S. Senator Bob Kerrey (Nebraska) in Washington D.C. for four years. He currently serves as board chair of the Tejon Ranch Conservancy. Chisholm is co-author of Birds of the Lahontan Valley (2000) and co-author of the Nevada Breeding Bird Atlas (2007). He has a PhD. in political science from U.C. Berkeley and a B.A. in political science from Creighton University.
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