Richard L. Wallace

People - Richard L. Wallace, Board of Directors

Board Member, Educator-in-Residence

Rich Wallace is recently retired from a long environmental career. Most recently, he was director of publishing at the Ecological Society of America, where he oversaw a portfolio of internationally-renowned journals in ecology and environmental science and practice. Previously, Rich was professor and founding chair of the Department of Environmental Studies at Ursinus College in Pennsylvania, where over two decades he established and collaboratively developed community-based programs in land stewardship, sustainability, food studies, and marine science. Prior to Ursinus, Rich taught at Eckerd College in Florida, following 10 years in both the government and nonprofit sectors working on federal programs for the protection of marine mammals under the Marine Mammal Protection Act and Endangered Species Act.

Rich’s history with NRCC dates to the mid-1990s, when he first joined the NRCC community as a Research Associate working on human-wildlife coexistence in marine environments, before turning his focus to the GYE.

Rich received his B.A. from the University of Vermont and a master’s and Ph.D. from Yale University; all three degrees are in interdisciplinary environmental studies, combining species and ecosystem ecology and public policy. Rich is a native of Brooklyn, NY and a transplant to Lexington, VA, where he lives with his wife Shannon Spencer, one of their sons, a dog, and a lizard.