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Northshore October 2025
Stephanie Brinley describes her childhood in rural Indiana as “free range.” “My sister and I were always out in the woods, lifting up logs, looking for critters,” she says. “I grew up in an environment that valued the outdoors and valued the natural landscape and the animals in it. That stuck with me my entire career.” That career has been as vast as the woods she loved to explore. Brinley served in the active-duty Air Force; at the Department of Defense; and at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum before making the leap to the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute, where she was deputy direct
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