1. Kieran Suckling was born on 1964 and is an American environmental activist who is one of the founders and the executive director of the Center for Biological Diversity, a nonprofit conservation group known for its protection of endangered species, wilderness, clean air, and clean water.
Kieran Suckling founded the Center for Biological Diversity while working on his doctoral dissertation in 1989.
Kieran Suckling served as executive director from 1989 to 2004, policy director from 2005 to 2007, and became executive director again in 2008.
Kieran Suckling is the only member of his immediate family born in the United States.
Kieran Suckling entered Salve Regina University, in Rhode Island, in 1982, then transferred the following year to double major in computer science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and philosophy at the College of the Holy Cross.
Kieran Suckling was culturally and politically active in college, editing literary and science magazines, organizing poetry readings, founding a chapter of Student Pugwash USA, working for the Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group and participating in political rallies and teach-ins opposing US intervention in Nicaragua and advocating global nuclear disarmament.
Kieran Suckling received a BA in Philosophy from College of the Holy Cross in 1987 and went on to study natural language processing as a fellow at Stanford University's Center for the Study of Language and Information and math at Columbia University.
Kieran Suckling backpacked in national parks and wilderness areas throughout Canada, the United States and Mexico for two years, funding his travels by working as a cook in Missoula, Montana.
Kieran Suckling taught Introduction to World Religions and Introduction to Eastern Religions to undergraduates in the Religious Studies Department.
Kieran Suckling moved west permanently in 1992 to work full time on endangered species and public land protection.
Kieran Suckling left the Stony Brook University doctoral program in 1999, receiving an MA in philosophy.
Kieran Suckling has published articles assessing trends in conservation of imperiled species, the effectiveness of the Endangered Species Act.
Kieran Suckling has examined the implications of the global homogenizing of biodiversity, language and culture, and the relationship between environmentalism, the arts, and the rights of indigenous peoples and poor communities.