Lily Verdone is an environmental leader with two decades of experience in partnership building, fostering diverse teams, and strategic development in organizations with a focus on natural resource conservation, water, and climate. Since...
Mike has served as Washington State Director for The Nature Conservancy since November 2012. Mike was Co-Founder/Principal of Pioneer Mountain Group (www.pmgadvisors.com) from 2006 to 2012. He and his team designed and implemented land and...
Salvador's graduate work is aimed at using information about fish ecology and movement to improve the conceptual models used to guide marine ecosystem and fisheries management. He is using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to develop...
Chuck Striplen completed his Masters and PhD in Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at the University of California, Berkeley. He attended archeological field school at California State University – Chico, and received a dual B.A...
Glenn continues to work in wildlife conservation law enforcement, most recently in Mexico with the Office of the US Trade Representative and in Kenya with US State Department and interagency partners.
Jenny Tollefson lives in Missoula, Montana where she works as Stewardship Director for Five Valleys Land Trust. Jenny has taught environmental education, directed a field science institute in Glacier National Park, served on the state board...
Sasha is the Ecoregional Ecologist at The Nature Conservancy for the Central coast of California, a region stretching from the Bay Area to Santa Barbara, and from the ocean to the Central Valley. Sasha obtained her doctorate from the...
Brad received an MS in Marine Sciences from the University of California, Santa Cruz and is a Switzer Foundation Conservation Fellow. His thesis work focused on the conservation and ecology of the Baja California endemic Black-vented...
Andrea is a consultant to foundations, non-profits, and businesses on issues related to tropical forests: their governance, their destruction, their restoration. She currently supports grantmaking at the Climate and Land Use Alliance, with...
