Nicole Rom
Executive Director, The Conservation Alliance
The Basics
Company Name: The Conservation Alliance
Location: Bend, OR
Founded: 1989
Full-Time Employees: 4
Products: Protect wild places by engaging businesses to fund and partner with grassroots conservation organizations
Social: Instagram // Facebook // Twitter
Claim to Fame: Together, we helped protect 73 million acres and 3,575 river miles, remove or halt 35 dams, purchase 17 climbing areas & designate five marine reserves.
The Culture
The best thing about working at The Conservation Alliance is:
When we’re not working, we’re:
Fishing, skiing, snowboarding, trail running, climbing, reading
What we’re reading:
What we’re listening to:
How I Built This podcast, The Daily podcast
Inclusion in the outdoors matters because:
So many reasons. Parks and public land are for all people. Access to open spaces and public spaces may be seen as a human right, as a requirement for an equitable society. And if human beings are going to do anything meaningful to combat climate change and reverse the global extinction crisis, we are going to need people who have not traditionally been part of the environmental movement to not only join the cause, but to lead.
Five years down the line, it’s our hope that:
● The makeup of our board and staff is significantly different, with currently underrepresented populations now making up a portion of the board and staff.
● Our grantmaking is explicitly tied to our DEI goals.
● Our DEI goals publicly defined and are also tracked transparently and publicly.