Ken Nicholls
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Ken Nicholls |
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| Silver Spring, MD | |
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| [email protected] | ||
| Ken lives in Silver Spring, MD with his partner
Mike Smith. He received a Masters Degree in Urban and Resource Planning from the
University of Michigan in 1972. After graduate school, he continued to live on the West
Side of Ann Arbor until 1982, owning a natural foods ice cream parlor and developing his
career in urban horticulture and conservation. He has served as Executive Director of
several non-profit organizations since moving to the East Coast, including the Delaware
Center for Horticulture in Wilmington, DE, the Audubon Naturalist Society of the Central
Atlantic States in Chevy Chase, MD, and the Montgomery Parks Foundation in Bethesda, MD,
where he is currently employed (http://www.montgomeryparksfnd.org/). From 1995 until 1999, he took a sabbatical from his conservation career to spearhead a capital campaign to build the Casey House, a 14-bed in-patient hospice facility in Rockville, MD (http://www.montgomeryhospice.org/). Ken and Mike live with their dogs Howie and Riley in suburban Washington, DC. Mike, whom Ken met while living in Ann Arbor, is a Senior Research Associate with Conservation International, Inc. in Washington, DC, working extensively in Cuba and other islands in the Caribbean. They enjoy gardening, Asian foods, hiking, and special times with friends and relatives. Ken’s mother still lives on Union Street in Jackson, leading to several visits "home" each year. He says he "still misses Michigan, especially the fond memories of trips up north." |