Land Use & Open Space Conservation

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Eunice Blavascunas

2005 Fellow
Eunice is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and Environmental Studies at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington. She completed her Ph.D. in cultural anthropology at the University of California Santa Cruz and has taught at the...
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Anne Short Gianotti

2004 Fellow
Anne Short Gianotti is Associate Professor of Earth and Environment at Boston University where her research and teaching focus on the social and political dimensions of environmental change. Her current research is centered on the of the justice and politics of wildlife, biodiversity, and climate change in cities.
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Jenny Tollefson

2000 Fellow
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...
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Michael Stevens

1995 Fellow
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...
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Tori Kjer

2005 Fellow
Tori is currently working to identify and build parks in low-income communities throughout the Los Angeles region. Current projects include a park in the City of Maywood and a green alley project in the community of Wilmington. Prior to...
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Andrew Whitney

2004 Fellow
Andrew completed a master's degree in Natural Resource Planning at Humboldt State University in 2010. His research project created an inventory of brownfields in Humboldt County. Andrew's research made connections between members of the...
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Joanna Grand

2002 Fellow
Joanna Grand is currently working as the Director of Spatial Conservation Science in the Science Division of the National Audubon Society. In this role, she leads local to hemispheric-scale spatial prioritization efforts that help guide the...
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Cynthia Fleming Ingelfinger

2000 Fellow
Cynthia Fleming completed her Master's Degree in the Field Naturalist Program at the University of Vermont. Cynthia studied the effects of ranching schedules on bobolinks nesting in irrigated hayfields on The Nature Conservancy's Carpenter...
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Jessica Davenport

1997 Fellow
Jessica Davenport supports the creation of resilient landscapes for people and nature in the San Francisco Bay Area as Deputy Program Manager for both the California State Coastal Conservancy’s Bay Area Program and the San Francisco Bay Restoration Authority.
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Colleen Callahan

2009 Fellow
Colleen Callahan is co-executive director of the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation, which unites the intellectual capital of UCLA with forward-looking civic leaders to advance environmental sustainability through scholarship, research, and...