Kathryn Novak
Biodiversity and Nature Director
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership
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Kathryn Novak leads all of the SFP activities related to protecting marine biodiversity and currently has a focus on the bycatch of endangered, threatened, and protected species. She leads a program of work that fuses science, communications, and industry engagement to allow the seafood sector to become a powerful protector of ocean wildlife.
Previously, Kathryn worked at the Ocean Conservancy and helped to initiate some of the early improvement projects in the US Gulf of Mexico. She is a certified ESG Practitioner with the Center for Sustainability Excellence (CSE). Kathryn has a BA in communications from the State University of New York at Albany.