Tricia Kreitman BSc (hons)

Tricia Kreitman joined Durrell's Board of Trustees in June 2002, and was elected to the new post of Vice-Chairman with effect from 1 July 2006. Tricia has been a supporter of the Trust’s work for many years after stumbling upon one of the Trust’s vehicles in the St Lucian rainforest during a family holiday. She worked first as a psychologist designing sex education programmes for young people, and then as a psychosexual therapist before becoming a full-time author and broadcaster. She has been an advice columnist for 17 years, specialising in young people’s and women’s problems. Tricia has worked on a wide variety of publications, including ‘Mizz’, ‘Chat’ and ‘Prima’, and is an experienced TV presenter and radio broadcaster. A parent of two teenage sons herself, she was until October 2002 Chair of Brook Advisory Centres, the national young people’s sexual health counselling service. She has had a long-standing interest in conservation and the work of Durrell Wildlife, and with her family and co-trustees at The Balcombe Trust she has for many years been sponsoring young conservationists from developing countries to travel to Jersey and study at the International Training Centre (ITC). She is a regular visitor to the ITC, and to the Trust’s overseas projects in Mauritius.