We are pleased to announce that Emily Gordon has joined Whitney Laboratory as our new development coordinator. Emily earned bachelor’s degrees in both nursing and zoology from the University of Florida. She has wide research, laboratory and field experience, including as an environmental scientist of the St. Johns River Water Management District with BCI Engineers, lab technician in the University of Florida Genetics Department and Department of Biology, forest ranger for Goethe State Forest, and research assistant for the Florida Department of Environmental Protection – Wetland Department. She has also authored numerous scientific publications.
Most recently, Emily works in accounts payable at Gordon Dental Associates. She has also been a board member of the All American Air Charitable Foundation and the Whitney Laboratory, volunteer at R.B. Hunt Elementary School and active sustainer of the Junior League of St. Augustine. Emily and her husband live in St Augustine Beach with their two daughters.