Executive Director & Staff
RIVERKEEPER
Drew Koslow is a biologist and noted clean water advocate who was instrumental in starting the successful 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. As Riverkeeper, Drew was successful building partnerships with local government, communities and churches that resulted in meaningful projects getting implemented. Drew studied environmental science at the University of Virginia and has worked for both the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Maryland Department of Natural Resources. At the DNR, Drew worked with commercial poundnet fishermen including many from Tilghman Island. He also worked for two years conducting water quality monitoring throughout the Chesapeake watershed. He brings vitally important experience and expertise to his role as a full-time RIVEKEEPER for the Choptank watershed.
Executive Director
Tim Junkin 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. He co-founded and for two decades served as the managing partner of a private law firm in Washington D.C. Junkin spent much of his boyhood in Talbot County, graduating from Easton High School. He obtained a B.A. degree, cum laude, from the University of Maryland, and completed his law studies at Georgetown University Law Center. He has taught at American University, Georgetown Law Center, and the Bethesda Writer’s Center.