Jason Ward Biography
Jason Ward is a naturalist, birder, and activist from the United States. He is the co-founder and former CEO of “The BlackAFinSTEM Collective” and the host of the 2019 television documentary series Birds of North America.
Jason Ward Age
Ward was born and raised in Bronx, New York, the United States of America.
Jason Ward Family- Parents
Ward was born and raised in the Bronx, New York. He has five siblings, however, he has not yet disclosed any information about his parents. Attempts to establish the identities of his family, his mother, and his father were in vain since no information about them is available to the public. It’s therefore not known whether she has any siblings.
Jason Ward Career
He relocated to Atlanta and began working in the mortgage industry. While there, he discovered the Atlanta Audubon Society and began attending their bird walks. He began leading these bird walks eight months later. He also worked as an education instructor at Zoo Atlanta. He worked for the National Audubon Society as a community relations and outreach coordinator until January 2020. Ward created the #TrickyBirdID bird identification game on Twitter. He tweets pictures of birds, and participants must guess which species they are. He explains how to identify the bird after the reveal.
Through this Twitter game, he drew the attention of Anna Holmes, an editorial director at Topic.com As a result, Topic produced the series Birds of North America, the first episode of which was released on March 17, 2019. Ward’s brother, Jeffrey, who is also a birder, appears frequently on the show. The documentary series aims to reach people who might not normally participate in conservation efforts or learn about natural history, such as young people, people of color, and city dwellers. Ward also hopes to promote birding as a therapeutic activity for city dwellers. In May 2020, Ward and other naturalists and science communicators founded the BlackAFinSTEM collective and participated in Black Birders Week— a series of online events to celebrate black scientists, scholars, and naturalists.
Jason Ward Awards
- 2019—Alongside the Wildlife Foundation Outreach Award, rescinded in February 2021 following sexual assault allegations
- 2020 – Listed as one of Grist 50
Jason Ward Net Worth
Ward has an estimated net worth of 10 million dollars.
