Lori Faeth

Lori Faeth joined the Land Trust Alliance as Government Relations Director in July, 2017.  In her role, Lori is responsible for advancing policy strategies and securing public funding to support land trusts and advance land conservation.  She is a veteran of both federal and state government as well as nonprofit organizations.  Lori joined the Alliance after serving as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and International Affairs at the U.S. Department of the Interior where she was responsible for advancing the Department’s cross-cutting and mutli-stakeholder domestic and international policy issues.  Prior to returning to DC in 2009 she spent six years as a senior advisor to Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano.  She advised the governor on a broad range of issues including agriculture, energy, natural resources, and the environment.  She worked on broad policy issues including forest health, climate change and water management and represented Arizona on the Western Governors Association Staff Advisory Council and the Western Interstate Energy Board.  Previously, she spent more than ten years at The Nature Conservancy as part of the national government relations team, ending her tenure as the Director of Government Relations for Arizona.