Areas of Expertise: energy, climate change adaptation, farm bill, invasive species, bird conservation.

Aimee leads Defenders' team working to develop and implement strategies to ensure that energy projects of all types are developed and sited in ways to avoid unnecessary adverse impacts to imperiled wildlife and habitats. Aimee has many years of experience using science and policy to understand and reduce the effects of renewable energy on wildlife and ecosystems. She has worked on collaborations advocating for bird-friendly solar development and was a member of the Wind Turbine Guidelines Federal Advisory Committee. Aimee has been with Defenders since starting as an intern in 1997, and her most recent previous role was in researching the effects of climate change on imperiled species and their habitats, and  developing adaptation strategies to help land managers protect wildlife and habitat threatened by the impacts of climate change. She has also worked on avian issues, farm bill conservation programs, invasive species and wildlife disease topics, and provided general science support to the organization. Her background is in ecology. 

She holds a B.S. in biology from the University of Notre Dame and an M.S. in environmental and forest biology from the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry.