Kendall Kroesen
Board Secretary
Kendall grew up in Southern California and earned a bachelor’s degree in anthropology at the University of California, Riverside. He worked for four years on archaeological and conservation projects and became a bird watcher. Later Kendall received a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from the University of California, San Diego after twenty months of fieldwork in central Mexico. Kendall held post-doctoral research positions at UCLA and the Tucson VA Medical Center. In February 2002, in a departure from social science, Kendall joined the staff of the Tucson Audubon Society. There he was involved in communications, rural habitat restoration, and the creation of an urban bird habitat program. After that he worked as Community Outreach Coordinator at Mission Garden, doing a variety of communications tasks and creating a docent program. Kendall has served on a variety of community advisory committees including the Tucson Parks and Recreation Commission. He enjoys gardening, birding, and walking dogs with his wife Mary Beth Tyndall.
