JOIN US FOR A FASCINATING PRESENTATION BY HALL HEALY ABOUT HIS WORK WITH THE INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION.
After a very brief overview of the International Crane Foundation and its operations worldwide, we will focus on work the Foundation has done in the reclusive regime of North Korea, to help a village increase its sources of food, children's education and food and habitat for the migratory Red-Crowned Crane, one of the world's most endangered birds.
We will discuss how the Foundation was able to enter North Korea in the first place, what it was allowed to do to help people and cranes, the project's end results, the characteristics/standards of living of the North Korean people & their attitudes towards Americans, and the funds spent to support the project, among other topics. There will be ample opportunity for Q & A. The discussion will be led by Hall Healy, who has traveled 3 times to the country.
BIO
After 30 years in sales, marketing and management, in steel, packaging and environmental engineering, Hall Healy has served with a number of non-governmental (NGO) organizations, including as chair of the Glencoe, IL, Sustainability Task Force, Emeritus Director and past Board Chair of the International Crane Foundation, an NGO working to preserve the fifteen species of cranes and their habitats worldwide. He has traveled to North Korea several times in support of conserving cranes and their habitats in that country. Currently, he is Board Chair of Audubon Midwest Region, on the Governing Board of the Chicago Zoological Society (Brookfield Zoo), and former president of the DMZ Forum, an NGO dedicated to preserving species and habitats in Korea’s Demilitarized Zone.
Mr. Healy has a BA in Political Science from Colgate University and an MBA from the University of Chicago, Executive Program. He is a member of the National Committee on North Korea (NCNK), an NGO dedicated to enhancing relations between our two countries, a past Board member of The Nature Conservancy/Illinois Chapter, and past member of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Task Force on Transboundary Protected Areas and the UCN Crane Specialist Group and spent five years in the U.S. Air Force in Turkey, Vietnam and Thailand.