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Watch Legacy Club member Luciana Honigman chat about her legacy for nature. "I’ve been blessed. I’ve gone to places I never otherwise would’ve gone."Thank YouThank you to all of our Legacy Club members for your dedication to preserving the diversity of life and for your foresight in providing for its future. If you've included The Nature Conservancy in your will or estate plan, please let us know—we would like to welcome you to The Legacy Club. Contact UsNeed more information about gift planning with The Nature Conservancy?
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“I’ve been blessed. I’ve gone to places I never otherwise would’ve gone.”
From assisting donors to working as a zoologist, Luciana Honigman has truly had an “A to Z” career at The Nature Conservancy.
Luciana, a native of Rio de Janeiro, will next year celebrate a 20-year commitment to the organization that started in Hawai'i, where her background as a marine biologist landed her a job as a Conservancy zoologist.
Seven years later, she took a dream position as the director of science for the Conservancy’s Brazil program—returning to her own home country to help partners get the tools they needed to achieve their mission.
Luciana realized that even more than science, she loved working with people. In 1999, she got that chance and transferred to the Conservancy’s Worldwide Office in Arlington, Virginia, to lead a brand new program working with some of the organization’s closest supporters.
“I was always amazed with our donors’ commitments, and wanted to do something to make them feel more a part of the organization,” she said.
Along the way she met people who changed the way she looks at the world. “They were inspiring. I realized I couldn’t ask people to join The Legacy Club if I myself was not a member.” That reason, in addition to her admiration for the work The Nature Conservancy does around the world, led Luciana in 2005 to name The Nature Conservancy as a beneficiary of her estate plans.
A Career of Personal Transformation
Now Associate Director of the Trustee Program, Luciana helps promote the organization’s global priorities to its volunteer leaders. But, she explains, it is the trips she’s been able to coordinate and participate in with the Conservancy that have been the most memorable.
From snorkeling in a jellyfish-filled lake in Indonesia to hiking in a remote area of China and seeing the Great Wall in person, the trips on behalf of the Conservancy with donors and Trustees have transformed her.
“Since I was a child, I’ve always wanted to see an elephant in the wild—and I finally got that chance on a Conservancy trip to South Africa,” she says.
“It hit me on an emotional level, and I realized I’ve been blessed. With The Nature Conservancy, I’ve gone to places I never otherwise would’ve gone and met wonderful people along the way.”
Image Credit: © Simon Williams/TNC; Video Credit: © TNC.
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