Bryan-College Station: Happy Hour with Jay Kleberg

Come out to one of Bryan-College Station’s first events and meet the Advisory Council. Also here a few words from our guest speaker Jay Kleberg. Jay Kleberg is the Associate Director for Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation. He is part of a team that conserves Texas’ most pristine lands to benefit wildlife and provide recreational opportunities to the public. He is a sixth generation Texan, born and raised on a working cattle ranch in South Texas. He is co-founder of a Brazilian-based Amazonian adventure travel company and conservation organization. Jay lived in El Paso for eight years working in cities along both sides of the US-Mexico border. He has experience with multi-day expeditions, having piloted a single-engine Cessna 5,500 miles from the Amazon to Texas in 2003, rode a mountain bike 2,700 miles along the Continental Divide Trail from the US- Mexico Border to Banff and paddled 264 miles of the San Marcos and Guadalupe Rivers as part of the Texas Water Safari. Jay lives in Austin with his wife and three daughters.