Jon Leibowitz, Advisor

Jon serves as the Executive Director of the Northeast Wilderness Trust, the only regional land trust in the Northeast focused exclusively on forever-wild conservation. Jon has worked in the private land conservation field since graduating from Vermont Law School in 2011. Prior to being at Northeast Wilderness Trust, he was the Executive Director of the Montezuma Land Conservancy, on the edge of the Colorado Plateau, in Cortez, Colorado. Jon serves on the Rewilding Leadership Council, the Steering Committee of Wildlands and Woodlands, the Board of Vermont Parks Forever, and is a co-owner of WildEdge Brewing Collective. He lives on the outskirts of Montpelier, Vermont, where he enjoys gardening, hunting, wandering the woods behind his house, and maintaining a questionable obsession with house plants.