Three members of the National Audubon Society’s board of directors resigned Wednesday in response to the group’s announcement that it will retain its current name tied to the enslaver and bird artist, John James Audubon.
The board of the National Audubon Society voted to not change its name, which honors John James Audubon, pictured, an artist who enslaved people. | National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian InstitutionThree members of the National Audubon Society’s board of directors resigned Wednesday in response to the conservation group’s announcement that it will retain its current name tied to the enslaver and bird artist, John James Audubon.
Tan was the leader of a task force commissioned by the Audubon board to consider whether to rename the group, according to the person who was informed about their resignations. Fuentes was a member of that task force. Some Audubon staffers, who had been waiting to hear about a decision about the group’s name, were frustrated to learn about the outcome from news reports prior to hearing from leadership. Audubon’s leadership alerted staff to the decision in a 9 a.m. email Wednesday, at the same timeBell and Audubon CEO Elizabeth Gray hosted a tense all-staff Zoom meeting in the afternoon, where they defended the decision to keep the name and fielded questions from frustrated staffers.
Audubon announced this week that the board made its decision after an evaluation process that spanned more than a year and included input from more than 2,300 people from Audubon’s network and beyond.it commissioned “historical research that examined John James Audubon’s life, views, and how they did — and did not — reflect his time.”
after leading Audubon’s office of equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging. Villalon wrote to colleagues in a farewell email that the organization at times failed to live up to its stated values.
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