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| LISA
BROCHU Associate Director |
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| What
if someone said that you could have any job you wanted? Short of
winning the lottery and never having to work again, that may be one
of the sweetest things you could hear. Many people might pick consulting
as the perfect job, but after over two decades of doing consulting
work, I’m finally getting to do the job I always wanted. The
members of NAI may not always recognize how much talent we have had
in NAI headquarters in recent years, but I am proud and humbled to
be contributing to this team of dedicated individuals. Throughout my career, I’ve been an interpretive planner, writer and trainer. I managed a visitor center for a brief period of time for Texas Parks & Wildlife Department, presented programs in both formal and nonformal educational settings, and performed consulting work for just about any federal agency you could name at one time or another, as well as a host of state agencies, private institutions, professional organizations, corporations, nature centers, museums, zoos, parks, pretty much anybody and everybody involved in interpretation. I owned and managed a planning and design corporation for a few years, then went back to freelancing when my family requested my presence on the home front. I started with AIN as a student member over 30 years ago, became a board member of WIA for a brief period of time before the consolidation and am now a founding and life member of NAI. It’s a joy to pick up the membership directory and recognize names on every page. This organization is like family to me, so my role as associate director is indeed the perfect job. Daily duties include managing the certification program, teaching certification classes, supervising program staff, managing international activities, and developing new products and programs. Over the years, I’ve been heavily involved with market research for NAI. I’ve served on half a dozen NAI workshop committees with job duties ranging from licking envelopes to program chair. And I’ve had a hand in planning and initiating several of the programs, products and services you enjoy as members. Since joining the staff of NAI in 2002, I've enjoyed getting to know even more of our members through the certification program and our increasing involvement with international activities. In the last few years, I've been fortunate enough to co-author several books with Tim Merriman and work on an array of diverse projects for NAI. I have also published three children's books and a book on interpretive planning, with several other works of fiction and nonfiction currently under way. And though I'll always be a Texan, I'm now enjoying living in Fort Collins on a small farm with a couple of horses, beehives, chickens, a Bernese Mountain Dog, my fiancé Tim Merriman, and my teenaged son, Trevor, while my older son Travis attends college at Aberdeen College in Scotland. We have such exciting times ahead as an organization. Please feel free to contact me at naiprograms@aol.com if you have any questions, concerns or suggestions about NAI programs, products and services. |
 Lisa signs books she has authored at the 2005 National Interpreters Workshop in Mobile, Alabama. |
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