Our Team

Nancy is an advisor to the Liber Ero Fellows Science Advisory Committee in Canada and a communications trainer to the Liber Ero Fellows. She also enjoys her role as a Director of the Sitka Foundation in Vancouver.

Nancy is a pioneer in the field of science communication and worked with COMPASS as Director of Science Outreach for 22 years. Her science communication book, Escape from the Ivory Tower: A guide to making your science matter, is a practical “how to” communication guide that is widely used by environmental scientists. She also co-authored a field-guide called, “Birds of Coastal British Columbia.” For many years she led naturalist trips within British Columbia and internationally for Vancouver Community College and the Vancouver Aquarium. Nancy began her career as a biologist in Banff National Park, spent 6 years as Director of Education at the Vancouver Aquarium, then morphed into journalism before becoming a science communications coach for environmental scientists. She has won numerous writing awards including the Canadian Science Writers Science in Society, Western Magazine awards and National Magazine awards. Currently she writes a column in her local newspaper called “In the Naturehood.”

She spends as much time as she can in wild places, binoculars in hand, with her writer husband Ken Weiss. They live on an organic avocado orchard outside Santa Barbara. Nancy currently divides her time between her home in Carpinteria California and Penticton, British Columbia, where she grew up.

She joined The Nature Trust of British Columbia as a Director in June 2022.