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MacKenzie Waro

MacKenzie Waro is the Land Conservation Stewardship Specialist for the Watershed Agricultural Council of the New York City Watersheds, Inc. She works for one of the largest Purchase of Development Rights programs in the Country helping to steward over 25,000 acres of land in the Catskill Region of New York. Born in Cooperstown, NY MacKenzieContinue reading “MacKenzie Waro”

Wendy Purnell

Wendy Purnell helps communicate ideas to new audiences. Programs she developed with environmental NGO Paso Pacífico, have received recognition from National Geographic, the Clinton Global Initiative, and the InterAmerican Development Bank.

Nitin Malhotra

Nitin Malhotra is an Electronics Engineering graduate and holds a post graduate degree in marketing from Symbiosis India. He has worked with top Semiconductor companies like ST Microelectronics. He started his career as an electronics design engineer working on VLSI design. He has a robust understanding of the Consumer Electronics sector having worked with leadingContinue reading “Nitin Malhotra”

Tim Magner

Tim Magner is a Chicago-based social entrepreneur working on creating ‘what’s possible.’ For the last six years, Tim has connected kids to nature with food-related projects and as a children’s book author. Tim studied the design of business and the role of government, is active in the commercial real estate industry and runs a monthlyContinue reading “Tim Magner”

Stuart Levenbach

Stuart Levenbach  is a policy analyst in the White House Office of Management and Budget’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, where he works with Administration officials and senior agency staff in the review and approval of environmental regulations. He relocated to Washington, D.C. from Santa Barbara over seven years ago to apply the experienceContinue reading “Stuart Levenbach”

Marti Hoffer

“I deliver on the promises I make courageously and with a keen awareness of my wake.” Marti Hoffer has broad vision and passion for the environmental impact her businesses can have locally and globally. As second generation owner of Inside Outfitters, Inc., she strives to provide cost efficient solutions to her clients for their lighting,Continue reading “Marti Hoffer”

Jos Hill

Jos Hill has fourteen years experience as a practitioner working at the nexus of conservation and poverty alleviation. Deeply committed to collaborative engagement, Jos approaches her work with a diverse background of knowledge and experience that includes conservation, resource management, marine ecological monitoring, ocean aquaculture and livelihood development, program management, sustainable business planning, non-profit management,Continue reading “Jos Hill”

Jessamine Fitzpatrick

Jessamine Fitzpatrick is focused on timberland and environmental markets investments for the real assets team at New Island Capital Management. Prior to joining New Island Capital, Jessamine served as a Climate Fellow for Clean Air-Cool Planet, a non-profit focused on climate change solutions. She also developed an analytical tool to guide corporate responsibility reporting forContinue reading “Jessamine Fitzpatrick”

Margaret Fields

Margaret Fields is the GIS Manager at the North Carolina Chapter of The Nature Conservancy, doing spatial analysis to support various projects around the state. Most recently she has performed a model to examine nutrient inputs in the Cape Fear River, mainly in the coastal plain. This area is dominated by agriculture, as well asContinue reading “Margaret Fields”

Chad Ellis

Chad Ellis is a pasture and range consultant for the Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation assisting agricultural producers and land stewards in attaining their financial, quality-of-life and stewardship goals by educating and counseling them on the adoption of sustainable, research-proven practices. Before coming to the Noble Foundation in 2012, Ellis was a Regional Grazing Lands ConservationContinue reading “Chad Ellis”