And something of all things I loved on organization that is unanticipated given that I happened to be similar to this really modern, young man
Andrew Sharpless: What Oceana’s job is, is to put more fish in the sea, to make the oceans more abundant, so that we can feed lots of people from a rebuilt ocean. Our method for doing that is winning national policy changes that produce that outcome. Chiefly that focuses on two things: stopping overfishing and fighting pollution.
In fact most people who work in the Oceana learn – realized simply because they was indeed really younger which they appreciated the fresh new seas –I am not one people
Melissa Wright: You’ve been doing this since 2003 when you took the helm at Oceana and you have a pretty diverse background that brought you to the place where you are today. Can you tell me more about what attracted you to Oceana and the work that they do?
Andrew Sharpless: Yeah, I did not take a straight line to this position. You know if you’d talked to me when I was 20 years old and asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would have said, oh, I want to run a public interest group and I would have had a long list of the public interests – it could involve lots of good things. But I wasn’t narrowly focused on the oceans.
Thus i was a general public notice people while the a young man. I thought an abundance of personal interest advocacy are laden with a objectives. And that i visited so many group meetings where people were talking really eloquently regarding something – immediately after which nothing carry out takes place. And i also got pretty disillusioned. And i ran towards providers. Is business, it issues whether or not you are doing everything said you used to be planning manage. And you also understand almost every quarter people find – whether you’re taking –
Andrew Sharpless: It was so real and so satisfying. Read more →
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