Meet Our Staff
We're small but mighty!
Jennifer Castner directs Eurasian Wildlife and Peoples.
Jennifer Castner advances Eurasian Wildlife and Peoples’ mission, partnerships, and fundraising efforts at Earth Island. She brings decades of experience in non-profit strategic development and planning, environmental conservation action, Russian language translation and interpreting, and solidarity and collaboration with Indigenous activists. She has traveled extensively in Russia, Ukraine, Central Asia, and beyond.
She lives in the United States. In her free time, she rides horses, bakes, knits, gardens, and volunteers in her community.
Selected publications
- Gas intrigues: Pipelines, nature reserves, NGOs, and the war, UWEC Work Group, September 2023 (co-author)
- Snow Leopards (Second Edition), Biodiversity of World: Conservation from Genes to Landscapes, Snow Leopard Conservation in Russia, 2024, (co-author)
- Community is Power, Earth Island Journal, Spring 2021 (author)
- Snow Leopard Population Monitoring Guidebook, WWF-Russia, 2020 (translator)
- Shor Shamanic Epic Folktales: Traditional Siberian Shamanic Tales, Arbachakov, L. & Arbachakov, A., 2019 (translator)
- Russian Indigenous Defenders Movement: a Briefing for Funders, International Funders for Indigenous Peoples, May 2018 (co-author)
- In Putin's Russia, Environmentalists Face Stiff Repression, Earth Island Journal, Summer 2015 (author)
- Encyclopedia of Indigenous Peoples of the North, Siberia, and the Far East of the Russian Federation, Center for Support of Indigenous Peoples of the North, 2011 (translator)