Lenore Beyer

Lenore Beyer is the director of conservation initiatives at Kinship Foundation where she manages Food:Land:Opportunity, an initiative to create a resilient local food economy in the Chicago region. Lenore manages a grant portfolio of $3M annually and spearheads projects in collaborative funding and innovative financing. Prior to joining Kinship, Lenore was the vice president of policy and planning at Openlands, a regional conservation land trust where she led projects to create the Hackmatack National Wildlife Refuge and integrated farmland protection with local food initiatives.