Oceana announced today that Susan Rockefeller, a respected documentary filmmaker, author and environmentalist, has joined its Board of Directors.
Rockefeller is a member of the Oceana Ocean Council, serving as its chair since February of 2009, and she also serves as the co-host of two major events which benefit Oceana. In the spring, Susan and her husband David Rockefeller are the co-hosts for the second annual Christie's Green Auction: A Bid to Save the Earth, which will be held on March 29 in New York. The auction benefits Oceana as well as the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), Conservation International, the Central Park Conservancy and Runway to Green. Rockefeller is also the co-host, along with Ocean Council member Lois Robbins, of the Hamptons Splash Party which will be held this summer on Long Island.
"I have always had a connection with the ocean," said Rockefeller. "I'm joining Oceana's Board of Directors because I am passionate about the need to protect our oceans."
Read the complete announcement from PR-USA.