Austin Founder Lions Club

Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center

  • 17 May 2012
  • 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Wells Fargo Building, 400 W. 15th Street, 3rd floor Auditorium

Registration

  • There is no fee charged for a guest(s) visiting for the first time
  • Guests are charged a lunch fee of $15 for each visit after their first visit.
  • There is no fee charged for a guest visiting for the first time. Please present yourself as a guest at the registration table and we will gladly introduce you to the club.
Registration is closed
Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
Susan Rieff - Executive Director 

The University of Texas at Austin

Introduction by Lion Tommy Cowan
Lady Bird Johnson

 
The mission of the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center is to increase the sustainable use and conservation of native wildflowers, plants and landscapes.



SusanRieffSpeaker's Bio: Susan K. Rieff is an expert in sustainability and resource protection with 30 years of experience directing major policy initiatives in Texas and nationally. In 2004, she became executive director of the Wildflower Center.
She led the center’s transition from a non-profit organization to a research unit of The University of Texas at Austin in 2006 and spearheaded its growing recognition as a national leader in landscape sustainability and plant conservation. Rieff previously was policy director for land stewardship for the National Wildlife Federation, the nation’s largest member supported conservation group.
She also served as deputy chief of staff for the U.S. Department of the Interior in Washington, D.C., where she directed the establishment of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument following its presidential designation in 1997.
From 1991 to 1995, Rieff served Gov. Ann Richards as policy council director and director of environmental policy. As legislative assistant to U.S. Senator Dale Bumpers for environmental and natural resources legislation, she helped secure protection of wilderness areas in Arkansas and fair-market returns for public resources.
A graduate of Texas Christian University with a B.S. degree in environmental sciences, she has a master’s degree from the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin, and has taught environmental policy courses there.

 
Please register by noon on Wednesday

We order meals based on your reservations and must pay for them even if you do not show up. Please keep this in mind if your plans shift and cancel your reservation so we can adjust the headcount.

Speak with either Bob Walcott
651 260 5205  Cell; 512 331 9294 Home
or Peter Berardino
512 695 2334  Cell - 512 288 3336 Home
to cancel a reservation
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