Cooper Farr is the Director of Conservation at Tracy Aviary, where she coordinates Tracy Aviary’s many avian conservation initiatives, allocates grants through Tracy Aviary’s Conservation Fund program, and implements a number of community science projects throughout the state. Cooper received her M.S. in Ecology from Colorado State University, where she investigated the effectiveness of conservation development as a private land conservation strategy that supports birds and mammals. She specializes in designing and implementing community science efforts that generate information on pressing conservation issues, inform bird-friendly land restoration and management, and build community support for local conservation efforts.