Justin Grubb
Justin is an award-winning filmmaker, photographer, published writer, naturalist, and co-founder of Running Wild Media. Justin earned his B.Sc. in Biology at Bowling Green State University and his Master of Biology at Miami University. With years of international wildlife field research and formal/informal teaching experience, Justin combines these two fields with media to enhance science communication. Justin’s love for nature and passion for the outdoors has brought him to some of the most extreme habitats on earth to study and film critically endangered wildlife.
He is a 2017 Emerging Wildlife Conservation Leader, a Nat Geo Wild "Wild to Inspire" award-winning filmmaker, a Fellow National of the Explorers Club, an Emerging League member of the International League of Conservation Photographers, and a TEDx Speaker.
SPEAKING
“Trade in sea turtle products is banned, but they're still sold in Japan.” Japanese demand for tortoiseshell is driving critically endangered—and protected—hawksbill sea turtles toward extinction.
PUBLICATIONS
“America’s Forgotten Wolf.” World's rarest wolf. The most-endangered wolf on Earth, the red wolf was once common throughout the eastern and south-central United States and now only lives in North Carolina.
PROFFESIONAL AFFILIATIONS
TEDx St Louis
Justin Grubb recently took the stage at TEDxStLouis to share a powerful and timely message: your backyard can be a refuge for wildlife and a frontline for conservation.
“For the Love of Reefs.” The California Academy of Sciences team explores the mesophotic reefs of Brazil to unlock its secrets and discover new species of fish never seen before in order to save this habitat from extinction
