Andrew J. Willner

Northeast Atlantic Coast Regional Representative

Andrew Willner has been an environmentalist, city planner, furniture designer, sculptor, boat builder, story teller, and photographer.  He was Executive Director and Baykeeper at NY/NJ BAYKEEPER® for nineteen years and retired in April 2008, He is the Baykeeper Emeritus and a member of the NY/NJ Baykeeper Board of Directors. 

He has started a consulting firm, Andrew J. Willner, Inc., is exhibiting and published a book of his photographs, in 2008-9 was a visiting public scholar at Monmouth University’s Urban Coast Institute.  He is a founding member and continues to serve on the international Waterkeeper Alliance Board of Directors, and has travelled nationally and internationally to speak on behalf of the Waterkeeper model of water and habitat protection.

Mr. Willner is a sought-after speaker on a wide variety of subjects including environmental advocacy, habitat restoration, and sustainability.  He is also called on to read from fiction and non-fiction works in progress, often supported by exhibitions of his photographs.