Elijah Wojohn

Elijah Wojohn

Elijah is part of the Resilient Habitats group and leading our efforts in Louisiana. He is focused on working with partners, stakeholders and farmers in Louisiana to help create habitat, primarily in the fall, for shorebirds that use agricultural land. He is also working on our broader efforts to build partnerships with the public, manage and grow the Louisiana Shorebird Alliance, and monitor the effectiveness of our work with expanding ISS volunteers.

Elijah grew up in Zachary, LA. Elijah enjoys family adventures in nature and is an avid conservationist, hunter, outdoorsman, and gardener. Elijah earned a bachelor’s degree in Natural Resource Ecology and Management with a concentration in Wildlife Ecology from LSU, and then completed a Graduate Certificate program at the University of Arkansas at Monticello in Waterfowl and Wetland Management. He’s passionate about using land management to advance conservation goals and has experience in agriculture and as a waterfowl manager/wildlife biologist. Elijah is currently living in Arkansas with his wife, daughter, two pups, and some chickens, but will be based in Louisiana where he’s originally from.

Anne Zegers

Joining Manomet in April of 2024 as Sea Run Fisheries Monitoring Coordinator, Anne is based in East Machias, Maine. She works with a diverse array of partners including commercial harvesters, NGOs, and state, tribal, and federal agencies to track the abundance of sea-run river herring across the region and monitor the shifting environmental conditions that impact them.

Raised by biologists in the heart of Eastern Maine’s conservation community, Anne rebelled by spending her college years studying Creative Writing (and Geology) at Cornell College (Mount Vernon, Iowa). After graduating in 2016, and a brief stint as a receptionist, Anne returned to her roots, working in Atlantic Salmon conservation, first with river-restoration group Project S.H.A.R.E., then as a field technician for the Maine Department of Marine Resources’ Bureau of Sea Run Fisheries.

Anne is fascinated by the unique ties binding communities to the landscapes they inhabit, especially the woods, rivers, and rocky coasts of Eastern Maine. In her spare time, Anne explores local history as secretary of the Revolutionary War Reenactors of Downeast Maine, and regularly portrays a British Marine – look, someone’s got to do it – wishing that his fine, red coat wasn’t such a compelling target.

Erin Sheehan

Erin Sheehan

Erin has a 20+ year background in developing, managing, and executing digital and traditional marketing programs in nonprofit, retail, and B2B environments. She earned her B.S. in Mass Communications and Public Relations from Boston University and gained her digital marketing skills in San Francisco during the dot-com boom.

After returning to Massachusetts, she lived and worked in Boston for 15 years before moving to Plymouth, where she enjoys the abundance of nature. In her spare time, she can be found gardening, paddleboarding, walking the beach with her dog, crafting, baking bread, and traveling.

Erin has been active in environmental causes since high school, where she introduced her school’s first recycling program and raised money during the inaugural year of the Walden Woods Project. In San Francisco, she was active in redwood conservation projects and community gardening. Now in Plymouth, she participates in beach clean ups, pollinator projects, and supporting town conservation efforts. She is excited to learn more about ornithology and refresh her Spanish with the help of her Manomet colleagues.

Andrea Ferreira

Andrea is Paraguayan and resides in the capital. She has a special connection with the natural areas of her country and South America. She joins the team as a Digital Content Specialist to contribute to the design and implementation of the content strategy of the WHSRN Executive Office and is responsible for preparing communication materials for various media channels.

Andrea holds a degree in Environmental Sciences and has a Master’s in Media Psychology and Technology from the University of Salford Manchester (United Kingdom), complemented by extensive training in photography and digital communication. Recently, she was a part of the World Land Trust (WLT) as a Social Media Officer. As the sole Latin American and a former staff member of an affiliate organization, Andrea played a crucial role in connecting with local partners. In her capacity as a visual artist, she participated in special missions in Colombia and Paraguay to document conservation projects. Additionally, Andrea is a photography instructor and has contributed to the editing and publication of nature identification guides and photographic books.

Her journey in bird conservation began in 2008 at Guyra Paraguay, where she played various roles over the course of 10 years. She participated in several Neotropical Waterbird Censuses in Paraguay, served as the editor of the digital magazine, and worked in biological monitoring projects and environmental education in rural and indigenous communities. In 2013, she was selected by Ducks Unlimited Mexico for the Biodiversity Management and Conservation Diploma. She also worked for WWF Paraguay as a Communications Officer, leading national campaigns on reforestation in the Atlantic Forest, protection of water resources, and the fight against deforestation. As a multidisciplinary professional, Andrea aims to enhance conservation programs through evidence-based digital communication.

Lily Green

Lily Green has recently joined Manomet as a Science Educator and will be working with the team in our educational programming and outreach, including our ongoing work with Brockton High’s Envirothon Team and the Green Team. As an alumnus of Brockton High School, she brings her experience working in both of those groups during her own high school tenure!

Lily earned her B.S. in Chemistry at UMass Lowell in May, 2020, and a M.S. in Environmental Sciences from UMass Boston in December, 2022. Her master’s thesis revolved around creating workshops with two underserved coastal communities in Massachusetts to identify their major environmental priorities, and how both their cultural values and relationships to their land shaped those priorities.

Outside of work, Lily enjoys figure skating, country line dancing, and reading. She’s excited to be outside teaching environmental-related lessons and learning about the land surrounding Manomet’s HQ.