Board of Directors Class of 2029

The Explorers Club Board of Directors is proud to welcome the Class of 2029, as newly elected by Club Membership:

Christina Janulis, MN’16 is the Membership Chair of the New England Chapter and most recently served as Program Officer of the Marine Conservation Action Fund at the New England Aquarium.

Since graduating from Harvard with a degree in Integrative Biology, Christina has deepened her involvement in the Club, serving on the Public Lectures, Climate Week, and World Oceans Week Committees, and creating and leading Blue Generation, a professional development program that has engaged 100+ emerging ocean explorers. During Climate Week 2025, Christina liased with renowned Tompkins Conservation to ensure that the launch of the largest rewilding program in South America took place at Headquarters.

At the New England Aquarium, Christina spent the past two years co-managing a global grant portfolio of marine conservation projects across 20+ countries each year, contributing to funding decisions and leading strategic communications.

As a PADI Divemaster, Christina’s field experience has been primarily underwater. She recently went on a field expedition with Flag #174 to the Chesapeake Bay, and served as a data collection diver and seaweed presser alongside Sylvia Earle, MED’81.

Milbry Polk, MED’95 is an author, photographer and lecturer focused on women explorers, and has been a Fellow of The Explorers Club for 31 years. She is the author of Women of Discovery, Egyptian Mummies, Looting of the Iraq Museum, and is the book reviewer for The Explorers Journal.

Milbry founded Wings WorldQuest to support women explorers and scientists.

She led an EC Flag expedition up the coast of West Greenland on the trail of painter William Bradford. She also led other expeditions including the crossing of the Western Desert of Egypt on camel along the trail of Alexander the Great, documented Yemeni traditional architecture and documented the long history of Arabian travel from the earliest spice routes to space.

In the last 30 years, Milbry has previously served on the Explorers Club Board twice and served as the Ombudsman. She founded the women’s committee, Breaking Barriers, was the Chair of the Nominations committee, served on committees for Library and Archives, EC Film Festival, Flag and Honors and others. She is the co-Chair of the Global Exploration Summit (GLEX) and co-founded The Young Explorers Program with Adventure Canada, which is now in its 10th year. She has also co-chaired ECAD and Lowell Thomas dinners. She received the Sweeney Medal in 2019.

She studied anthropology at Harvard College. She is a US and UK citizen, and is married and has three daughters.

Jamie Robinson, MN’14 has already produced huge value for The Explorers Club in turning relationships, creativity, and brand power into hard cash for exploration. As the VP of Corporate Outreach & Partnerships and the Chair of ECAD 2025 & 2026, he’s raised millions of dollars in in-kind support, merchandise, and donations. From the Tory Burch capsule collection to member benefits to expanded brand partnerships, Jamie is focused on delivering tangible benefits to members and putting TEC in front of broader audiences.

An explorer at heart, he is an avid traveler, music lover and collector of outsider folk art and whose curiosity for natural history led him to help prove that T-Rex once lived in Sweetgrass County, a part of Montana which had not previously been proven to have once been the home to dinosaurs; the T-Rex tooth he discovered now resides at the Museum of the Rockies.

Professionally, Jamie is the Founder and CEO of TAPP Technologies (TappTek.com), a beverage analytics and engagement company that is redefining how consumers and brands connect through data-driven insight and interactive technology. Over more than 30 years at the intersection of sports, entertainment and tech, he has been the engine behind major marketing initiatives, negotiating over $1 billion in sports, entertainment, licensing, merchandising and sponsorship deals for brands. He was recently recognized by Rawlings Sporting Goods for changing MLB history by creating the Platinum Glove Award. He is the first non MLB player to win such an award.

Trevor Wallace, FN’13 – Originally elected as a student member in 2013, Trevor works as an expedition leader and documentary filmmaker, specializing in underwater archaeology and field science, with a focus on mission-driven, not-for-profit projects.

Trevor was recently appointed to the Board to complete the final year of Dr. Johnny Waters’s term, having previously served as the Vice President of Research and Education (2019-2024). As VP of Research and Education, Trevor helped grow the Club’s research and education portfolio from approximately $200,000 per year to an average of $600,000 and expanded The Explorers Club’s from three to ten grant programs. Working closely with staff and leadership, Trevor awarded the largest total expedition funding and the largest single grant in the Club’s history, launched the ECAD Grantee Symposium, expanded virtual convenings, hired a consulting director, and recruited 50+ reviewers to build a more inclusive, global reviewer community. As a Director, Trevor supported education initiatives such as the Teaching Fellows Program and presented on navigating the Club and its funding opportunities at Oceans Week. He currently serves on the Flag and Honors, Impact Grants, Rolex Watch, DEI, and Education Committees.

As an explorer, he has participated in more than ten flag expeditions, leading several of them. In 2018, he received the New Explorer of the Year Award for documenting the world’s oldest known Scythian tomb alongside Dr. Gino Caspari. He is the expedition leader and scientific co-director of the Menorca Shipwreck Project, a multi-year underwater archaeology excavation and field school that has trained 40+ Explorers Club members and citizen scientists in underwater excavation. His films and science communication work have appeared in outlets such as National Geographic, The New York Times, and more.