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Regional Business Manager
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Matthew Downing
Regional Business Manager
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Matthew Downing completed his BA in Economics at the University of California-Davis before entering a career in banking and financial services. After nearly 20 years working in various finance roles in the San Francisco Bay Area and NYC, he decided to apply his expertise to a cause he has held dear since frequently visiting the San Diego Zoo and Wild Animal Park as a child. Throughout his career, he has maintained an avid interest in environmental and conservation issues, and he is committed to consistently and efficiently delivering impactful results to meet WCS's goals.
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Climate Change Adaptation Coordinator
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Molly Cross
Climate Change Adaptation Coordinator
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Molly Cross, Ph.D., is the Climate Change Adaptation Coordinator for the North America Program of the Wildlife Conservation Society. Her work focuses on bringing together science experts and conservation practitioners to translate broad-brush climate change adaptation strategies into on-the-ground conservation actions. Molly is helping to lead climate change planning efforts involving diverse stakeholders at several landscapes across North America, focused on a range of targets from individual species to more complex ecosystems. She recently co-edited the book Climate and Conservation: Landscape and Seascape Science, Planning and Action, and co-wrote a guidebook and associated training course on Scenario Planning as a tool for climate change adaptation. Molly has contributed to several national climate change efforts including the U.S. National Climate Assessment, the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies guidance on incorporating climate change into state wildlife action plans, and the Climate-Smart Conservation guide to climate adaptation. She is the Science Advisor to the WCS Climate Adaptation Fund, which supports applied projects demonstrating effective interventions for wildlife adaptation to climate change. Molly got her Ph.D. in Environmental Science, Policy and Management from the University of California, Berkeley, where she studied ecosystem responses to climate warming and plant diversity loss in the Colorado Rocky Mountains.
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Program Manager, Working Lands Initiative
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Steven Primm
Program Manager, Working Lands Initiative
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Steve is a conservationist specializing in coexistence between people and wildlife. Having worked in wildlife conservation in the Northern Rockies since 1992, Steve has an abiding commitment to the well-being of communities and the land. His work has spanned the spectrum from law and policy, to community dialogue, outreach, and on-the-ground projects. Steve has worked with rural communities to develop, apply and improve tools and practices for reducing conflicts between people and large carnivores. He leverages this experience by developing policies and incentives to ensure that coexistence practices will be effectively adopted at meaningful scales. Steve earned his master’s degree in environmental policy from the University of Colorado-Boulder.
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