Mallory Lykes Dimmitt – National Geographic Society Newsroom
Mallory Lykes Dimmitt
Profile
Mallory Lykes Dimmitt is a seventh generation Floridian whose childhood was partly spent exploring the lands and waters of Central Florida. She pursued her passion for the outdoors into a career, receiving her B.S. in Natural Resources from the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. She was also awarded a Doris Duke Conservation Fellowship at Duke University’s Nicholas School of Environment where she earned a Master’s of Environmental Management. Some of Mallory’s projects include protecting river corridors and large landscapes in Southwest Colorado and across the Colorado Plateau with The Nature Conservancy, research abroad for the International Water Management Institute and, currently, leading the Florida Wildlife Corridor as Executive Director. Mallory is passionate about freshwater conservation and the intersection of landscape scale conservation and agriculture.