Executive Director
Tim Junkin is the founder and Executive Director of CREB Conservancy, now Midshore Riverkeeper Conservancy. He is an attorney with thirty years of experience as a trial lawyer and advocate of civil rights, an award winning writer with three books under publication (all centered around the Choptank River-Eastern Bay area), and a teacher. His books, in chronological order, are The Waterman, Good Counsel, and Bloodsworth. He has also published numerous magazine and newspaper articles. He co-founded and for two decades served as the managing partner of a private law firm in Washington D.C. Tim spent much of his boyhood in Talbot County, graduating from Easton High School in 1969. He obtained a B.A. degree, cum laude, from the University of Maryland in 1973, and completed his law studies at Georgetown University Law Center in 1977, where he graduated as a Law Fellow. He has taught at American University, Georgetown University Law Center, Harvard University Law School, and the Bethesda Writer’s Center. He was recognized by American University in 1984 as the year’s outstanding adjunct professor. Tim established the Conservancy in the autumn of 2008 and has served as its director since that time.
Choptank RIVERKEEPER
Drew Koslow is a biologist and noted clean water advocate. Drew was instrumental in starting the South River Federation and served as its president from 1999-2002. He then went on to serve for four years as its first full-time South RIVERKEEPER. Drew obtained a graduate degree in marine biology from the University of Virginia and has worked for both the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Maryland Department of Natural Resources. He began as our Choptank RIVERKEEPER inApril 2009 and often provides a leadership role for our other Bay KEEPERS. He served, for example, as the lead expert witness in a recent successful legal action brought by all Maryland WATERKEEPERS against the Maryland Department of the Environment which led to a significant strengthening of its five year construction stormwater permit.
Miles-Wye RIVERKEEPER
Tom Leigh is a biologist and, for the last three years, served as the lead advocate for the Chester River Association in the role of the Chester RIVERKEEPER. Prior to that he was employed by Environmental Concern, Inc., in Saint Michaels where he constructed living shorelines and restored wetlands. Tom studied marine biology at Washington College and went on to receive his master’s degree from Hofstra University where he was later hired to manage their marine lab in Jamaica. He was raised and now lives with his wife and two daughters at the mouth of the Wye River. When Tom learned we were considering adding a Miles-Wye RIVERKEEPER, he approached us, desiring the opportunity to serve as an advocate for his home rivers. As someone who has seen first-hand the slow decline in Miles and Wye water quality, Tom brings his environmental ethos and passion for clean water to his home rivers and will provide the full-time representation that they so urgently need.
