National Audubon Society
The Plaza, Fifth Avenue at Central Park South,
New York, NY 10019
United States
Ticket Information: Vanna Sin (212) 979-3057 or vsin@audubon.org.
The National Audubon Society will honor J. Drew Lanham with the Dan W. Lufkin Prize for Environmental Leadership for his tireless advocacy to protect birds and build a new generation of conservation leaders. He will be presented with one of Audubon’s top conservation awards at its annual gala in New York City on February 7, 2019.
The recipient of this year’s Dan W. Lufkin Prize for Environmental Leadership will be J. Drew Lanham, Ph.D., Alumni Distinguished Professor of Wildlife Ecology, Master Teacher and Certified Wildlife Biologist at Clemson University. The Lufkin Prize is awarded to those who have dedicated their lives to the environment and on-the-ground conservation. Dr. Lanham has dedicated his career to understanding the impacts of forest management on birds and wildlife, as well as how humans think about nature. As an acclaimed author and award-nominated poet, he has also inspired a new and diverse generation of conservationists and environmental stewards through his powerful writings and leadership in diversifying birding and conservation.
Learn more about the event. Learn more about the Dan W. Lufkin Prize for Environmental Leadership.
J. Drew Lanham
A native of Edgefield, South Carolina, J. Drew Lanham is the author of The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature. He is a birder, naturalist, hunter-conservationist, and an Alumni Distinguished Professor of Wildlife Ecology and Master Teacher at Clemson University.
This memoir is a riveting exploration of the contradictions of Black identity in the rural South, asking what it means to be “the rare bird, the oddity.”