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Leaders and Experts

Executive Team
Carrie Besnette Hauser
President & CEO
D. Malcolm Carson
Senior Vice President & General Counsel
Jeff Danter
Chief Program Officer
Howard Frumkin
Senior Vice President & Director of the Land and People Lab
Bill Lee
Senior Vice President of Policy, Advocacy & Government Relations
Jim Obendorf
Senior Vice President & Chief Financial / Administrative Officer
Annie Smith
Senior Director of Board Strategy & Operations
Patricia Watson
Senior Vice President, Chief Philanthropy Officer
Featured Experts
Will Abberger
Conservation Finance Director
Ronda Lee Chapman
Associate Vice President, Equity and Belonging
Bianca Clarke
Associate Vice President, 10-Minute Walk Campaign
Jennifer Clinton
Senior Parks and Conservation Economist
Danielle Denk
Senior Director, Community Schoolyards Initiative
Mitchel Hannon
GIS Program Director
J.T. Horn
Senior Director, Trails Initiative
Linda Hwang
Senior Director, Strategy & Innovation
Jocelyn Imani
PhD, Senior Director, Black History & Culture
Rodger Krussman
Vice President, Director of Conservation
Ken Lucero
PhD, Indigenous and Tribal Communities Director
Emily Patterson
National Director for Capital Projects
David Patton
VP Center of Strategic Leadership & National Lands Initiative Director
Brendan Shane
Climate Director
Cary Simmons
Director of Community Strategies
Pooja Sarin Tandon
MD, MPH, Health Director
State Directors
Betsy Cook
Associate Vice President, Maine State Director
Dick Dolan
Associate Vice President, Northern Rockies Director
Noel Durant
Associate Vice President, Tennessee State Director
George Dusenbury
Vice President Southern Region, Georgia, Florida, and Chesapeake State Director
Scott Dvorak
Associate Vice President, New Jersey State Director
Owen Franklin
Vice President, Great Lakes Region and Pennsylvania State Director
Walker Holmes
Vice President, Mid-Atlantic Region and Connecticut State Director
Lea Hong
Associate Vice President, Hawai‘i State Director
Mitsu Iwasaki
Associate Vice President and Northwest Director
Kristin Kovalik
Oregon State Program Director
Molly Morgan
Texas State Director
Caroline O'Boyle
Associate Vice President, Illinois State Director
Jim Petterson
Vice President Mountain West Region, Colorado & Southwest Region Director
Tamar Renaud
Associate Vice President, New York State Director
Guillermo Rodriguez
Vice President Pacific Region, California State Director
Shelby Semmes
Vice President New England Region, Vermont & New Hampshire State Director
Sean Terry
Associate Vice President, Ohio State Director
Jodi Valenta
Massachusetts State Program Director
Sophie Harris Vorhoff
Associate Vice President, Minnesota State Director
Conservation Finance
Lands
National and Regional Volunteer Boards and Committees

We benefit from the expertise and guidance of our National Board of Directors, advisory boards and our emeritus board members. Learn more about these groups.

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