Brandie Smith | Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute https://nationalzoo.si.edu/about/staff/brandie-smith
As the John and Adrienne Mars director of the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute, Brandie Smith oversees the 163-acre Zoo facility in Washington, D.C.’s Rock Creek Park and the 3,200-acre Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute campus in Front Royal, Virginia. She is responsible for the operations of the public Zoo in Washington, D.C., which has approximately 1.8 million visitors a year, and manages the Zoo’s groundbreaking conservation biology research team that works in more than 30 countries.
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