11.16 Presenter Bios

Kathi Lynn Austin is the Founder and Executive Director of the Conflict Awareness Project (CAP) and primary investigator on the Battle Zone Rhino expose and criminal dossier.  CAP is dedicated to investigating, documenting and bringing to justice major arms traffickers, war profiteering networks, and transnational criminal operations that fuel conflict, illegal resource exploitation and abuses around the world.  Battle Zone Rhino is CAP’s contribution to the global effort to stop wildlife crime and save Africa’s dwindling rhino populaton from extinction.  An internationally-recognized arms traffficking expert, Ms. Austin was named the Arms Control Association's "Person of the Year" in 2011. She has carried out over twenty five years of precedent-setting investigations and served as an arms trafficking expert for the United Nations.  conflict awareness.org

Kathi Lynn Austin with confiscated rhino horn and elephant tusks.

Brian Gaisford is the founder of Hemingway Gallery and Hemingway Photographic Safaris combining wildlife conservation work while collecting art in the field.  Brian and Hemingway Gallery and Saris have worked with and raised funds for organizations such as Born Free Lola Ya Bonogo Long Shields Lion Guardians, and others.  Brian Gaisford is a native South African and "has seen it all from Timbuktu to Cape Town.  hemingwayafricangallery.com

Brian Gaisford with Brent Stapelkamp & Long Shields