We are pleased to continue our Distinguished Lecture Series, now in its 15th season. Jenny Hansell, President of Berkshire Natural Resources Council (BNRC), will discuss “Who Is Nature For? The Future of Land Conservation and Trails in the Berkshires” on Sunday, April 24, 2022 at 4:00 p.m.
This event will take place via Zoom; please click HERE to access the meeting.
Jenny Hansell came aboard BNRC as its third President in February 2018. Born in Boston and raised in Detroit, Jenny earned her BA from Yale and Masters in Public Administration from University of Connecticut. Before she moved to Massachusetts to join BNRC, she lived in Sharon, CT and for 17 years was Executive Director of the North East Community Center in Dutchess County, NY. She has worked as an Environmental Policy Analyst at the National Audubon Society and Associate Director of the Council on the Environment of New York City and held positions at Creative Art Works and Sesame Workshop, both in New York.
Now in its 15th season, the Distinguished Lecture Series is organized and hosted by Dr. Jeremy Yudkin. Dr. Yudkin is a resident of the Berkshires and professor of music at Boston University and Oxford University. Every summer at the Lenox Library he presents the pre-concert lectures for the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Tanglewood season.
All programs in the Distinguished Lecture Series are FREE and open to the public thanks to the generosity of the speakers and donors like you. We also are grateful to the Lenox Library Association, whose sponsorship of Zoom makes these virtual programs possible.