WBFI Staff
Emma Krutsinger, Executive Director
Emma Bennett has worked in association management for over 7 years with groups focused on resource conservation. For other organizations, she has focused on program management including standards development, fundraising, and event coordination. Emma is a South Dakota native, with a degree in Business Management with an emphasis in Global Business and Nonprofit Management from Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego, CA.
Evelyn Neale, Deputy Director
Evelyn Neale is an experienced and innovative leader with 20+ years in Nonprofit Leadership. Evelyn earned her bachelor's at the University of Stony Brook and her master's at Queens College. She is a passionate lifelong learner, recently achieving her Meetings & Events Specialist Certificate from AMCI. She loves spending time with family and friends, exploring new places, and finding birds in nature.
Rebecca Zabel, Program Manager
Rebecca Zabel has nearly 10 years of experience working with business associations managing programming, events, committees, and communications. She thrives on connecting with members and supporting their efforts behind the scenes. She received her bachelor's from Buena Vista University and her MBA from University of South Dakota. She is new to the birding hobby, but with a husband who has been birding for years, their backyard will soon be a bird sanctuary.
Matt Young, Partnered Researcher
Matt Young is author of Finches of North America with Lillian Stokes and the President and Founder of the Finch Research Network (FiRN). He worked at the Cornell Lab across 15+ years where he did extensive field work for the Lab's Cerulean and Golden-winged Warblers atlas projects, and was project lead on the Lab's first Finch Irruptive Bird Survey for Bird Source in 1999. He was the Collections Management Leader/Audio Engineer at the Macaulay Library ~12 years where he edited sounds for several Merlin packs.
Zach Hutchinson, Partnered Naturalist
Zach Hutchinson is an all-around bird enthusiast that owns and operates Flocking Around, a birding and bird feeding informational site. Zach's day job is to coordinate regional science and research efforts in the largest bird conservation group in North America. Zach is a permitted master bander, oversees seven bird banding stations in the Rockies, and has banded over 10,000 birds, from hummingbirds to eagles. Zach has a particular interest in creating digestible public communications on information learned from ornithological research.