Photo: Eastern Bluebirds, Danny Brown/Audubon Photography Awards
Tina Dudley is a lifetime animal lover, proud Arlington Regional Master Naturalist, and has 10+ years of experience working in the non-profit field with a focus on community building, adult education, inclusion, and equal access to opportunity.
Tina Dudley
While working at Enterprise Community Partners, Tina helped manage the National Disaster Resilience Competition and worked on technical assistance projects for HUD grantees. She worked on projects to expand internet access to low-income families, increase availability of affordable housing, prioritize equitable city development strategies, and improve equal access to parks and recreation areas. Tina also has experience in fundraising and grant writing from her time at The Family Tree in Baltimore, MD. As the first in her family to go to college, Tina has lived experience with affordable housing, and with that brings a lens of empathy and inclusion to her work. She spent much of her childhood outdoors, playing in nature and visiting parks with her family.
Through Arlington Master Naturalists, Tina has reconnected with her childhood passion for nature and wildlife. Research has shown the restorative and equigenic power of nature, especially for children from low-income communities. Tina is also volunteers for Nature Core Outdoors Initiative, which seeks to increase access of low-income children to nature-education opportunities.
As a resident of the DMV area for 15 years, she is thrilled to turn her professional focus to engaging all Northern Virginia communities in enjoying, conserving, and restoring nature for the benefit of birds, other wildlife, and people, as the new Program Manager for Audubon Society of Northern Virginia.