Jamie loves to be underwater and scuba dive with sharks.
She is the Executive Director for Shark Angels, a non profit organization dedicated to saving sharks. Shark Angels uses innovative education, advocacy programs, and social media campaigns to protect sharks. She also a graphic designer and worked in top NYC ad agencies for 25 years. She is now a freelance graphic designer and loves to combine her love of the underwater world with her love of advertising and marketing.
She has been diving for more than 25 years, logging tons of hours in the water with many different species and in many different habitats. She has dove with countless species of sharks worldwide gaining valuable knowledge and experience about their behaviors and their unique traits.
She has seen great whites in Guadalupe and South Africa, oceanic white tips and silkies in Cat Island, great hammerheads and bull sharks in Bimini, schooling hammers in Cocos Island, nurse sharks in the Caribbean, whale sharks in Cancun, Galapagos sharks in Galapagos, woebegone sharks in Australia, sand tigers in North Carolina, reef sharks in Nassau Bahamas, bull sharks and zebra sharks in Fiji. She loves to take pics underwater too.
She uses her custom- tailored presentations to educate and inspire kids & adults to take action and create change. Using Zoom, she has spoken to students all over the world. Her presentations feature topics such as why sharks are so important, current issues facing sharks today, the economics of a live shark vs a dead one, to chum or not to chum, why sharks are so cool and what we can do to help them.
Every year Shark Angels leads a group of scuba divers for a fun filled sharky adventure. Her trips have led her to whale sharks in Cancun, thresher sharks in the Philippines, oceanic white tips in the Bahamas, and her upcoming trip will be to Mozambique to dive with whale sharks.
She was featured on “Shark Junkies” as a shark expert on ABC News Nightline, which aired on Jan 18, 2014. Jamie turned her passions of scuba diving, sharks and conservation into a career and was written up in Money Magazine, June 2010.