Lindsay Renick Mayer

M.A. Journalism, Northwestern University
B.A. Journalism, University of Wisconsin-Madison

If you are a reporter/editor/producer, you can reach Lindsay at lrenickmayer@rewild.org.

As director of communications and impact campaigns, Lindsay oversees communications strategy for Re:wild’s programmatic work and leads a talented team of social media and media relations experts (and all-around awesome human beings). She also helps lead Re:wild’s Advocating for Earth strategy, using international communications to put pressure on key stakeholders around the world to stop extractive industry projects, development, and cattle ranching in Indigenous territories and irreplaceable places for biodiversity. This work focuses on amplifying the voices of Indigenous Peoples and local communities and has supported a number of their critical conservation wins, including in Jamaica, Cameroon, Ecuador, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Panama.

Lindsay is a contributing member of the Key Biodiversity Area (KBA) Partnership communications working group, Red Flag KBA working group, co-chair of the Atelopus Survival Initiative’s (ASI) communications working group, and a member of the ASI’s task force through the IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group. She has been covering harlequin toad threats, research and conservation since 2010, and loves amphibians of all kinds (but especially harlequin toads!).

Lindsay is passionate about social and environmental justice, community organizing, storytelling, and celebrating the inherent value of all of our planet’s species. Lindsay has worked as a communications specialist for the Smithsonian’s National Zoo with a focus on the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute and Panama Amphibian Rescue and Conservation Project. She was also an associate director of marketing for The Nature Conservancy’s Maryland/DC and Virginia chapters, worked as a science writer/co-op student for NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, and spent a number of years covering U.S. politics as an investigative writer.

Gratwicke, B., Neff, M., Renick Mayer, L. , Ryan, S., Sevin, J. (2016) Education and Outreach. In C. Kenneth Dodd, Jr. (Ed), Reptile Ecology and Conservation (pp. 436 – 446). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Renick Mayer, L. (April, 2015). The Race to Protect Frogs from a Deadly Pathogen Gets a Much-Needed Boost. Smithsonian Magazine.,Smithsonian’s National Zoo Official Commemorative Guide (2015). Washington, D.C.: Beckon Books.