Cristina
Goettsch Mittermeier was born in Mexico City and raised inCuernavaca in the state of
Morelos.In 1989 she graduated
from the ITESM University in Guaymas as a Biochemical Engineer specializing on
fisheries and aquaculture and found her first job as a technical associate for
Conservation International in their Mexico program. She participated in the original management plans for various
protected areas in both the Gulf of California and the Selva Lacandona regions
and helped negotiate CI’s first debt-for-nature swap in Mexico.
After
marrying Russ Mittermeier, President of CI, in 1990,
Cristina moved to Washington, DC, where the imperative of raising a young
family gave her the opportunity to follow a new interest, this time in
publishing and photography.
As a
photographer and writer since 1996, Cristina has co-edited 9 books, including a
series published with Conservation International and Cemex.A recent book project, The Human
Footprint, was
produced with the Wildlife Conservation Society in New York in conjunction with
the International League of Conservation Photographers (ILCP), an organization
she founded in 2005.In 2008, the
ILCP, with Cristina serving as Senior Editor, published A Climate for Life, one of the Cemex book series,in partnership with Conservation
International. Recently, The Wealth of Nature was launched at the 10th
Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Convention on Climate Change in
Copenhagen in December of 2009.
Cristina
serves as President of the ILCP (www.ilcp.com)
on the Chairman’s Council at Conservation International (CI), and on the
Advisory Board of Nature's Best Magazine.She is a member of the Steering Committee of the Commission on
Communication and Education of the IUCN and she is a Board Member of the WILD
Foundation. She also serves on the board of other conservation-minded
organizations like Terralingua and Lighthawk, and she is a member of the
Society of Environmental Journalists.
Cristina
is one of Sony’s Artisans of the Image and all her work is created with Sony’s
Alpha 900 system.
She has
lectured on subjects ranging from conservation science and priorities to the
effective use of photography in conservation.
From
the popular to the scientific, her work has appeared in major magazines around
the world including Nature's Best, Latina, Elan, National Geographic, National
Geographic Explorer, Organic Connections and American Photo in the United
States, Rumbos, Escala, Elle Magazine and Sale la Foto, in Mexico, Explorador
and Terra in Brazil, Man and Biosphere in China, among others.
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From the popular to the scientific, her work has appeared in major magazines around the world including Nature's Best, Latina, Elan, National Geographic, National Geographic Explorer, Organic Connections and American Photo in the United States, Rumbos, Escala and Sale la Foto, in Mexico, Explorador and Terra in Brazil, Man and Biosphere in China, among others.
