Joleen Ossello was Director of 'Save our Shorebirds' while attending College of the Redwoods in Fort Bragg. She is an Indiana native with a degree in outdoor education from Indiana University. After working as a naturalist in West Virginia she came to California. There she made San Francisco Bay studies and designed kiosks for the Audubon Richardson Bay Sanctuary and worked for U.C. Berkeley as a lab/research assistant. She then traveled north to Mendocino County to work as a Fisheries Technician in Noyo Harbor.

Joleen writes "As the former Save Our Shorebird's Director with the local Audubon chapter, my life has come full circle! I've come a long way from the corn fields of Indiana to discover an ocean of bounty here in Mendocino County."