Graham Chisholm has been Audubon California’s Deputy State Director and Director of Conservation since March 2005.  He previous was the Executive Director of The Nature Conservancy's California Program from 2001-2004. Prior to coming to California he served as TNC's Nevada State Director and Director of the Stillwater Marsh-Pyramid Lake Project in Nevada where he pioneered innovative water acquisition strategies to restore wetlands and instream flow. Chisholm co-founded Great Basin Bird Observatory and coordinated the Nevada Breeding Bird Atlas.  In 1996 he also co-founded Great Basin Land and Water, a nonprofit organization that has assisted the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe and the cities of Reno and Sparks and Washoe County in their implementation of a groundbreaking water quality settlement agreement. Chisholm also served as a natural resources assistant to U.S. Senator Bob Kerrey (Nebraska) in Washington D.C. for four years.  Chisholm is co-author of Birds of the Lahontan Valley (2000) and co-author of the Nevada Breeding Bird Atlas (2007).  He has a PhD. in Political Science from U.C. Berkeley and a B.A. in Political Science from Creighton University.  Graham is married to Kelly Cash, and they have a son (12) and a daughter (9).  Graham has been a birder since age 13, loves sea kayaking, telemark skiing and reading.