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Jane Elder
President
Jane Elder Strategies, LLC
Jane Elder has been actively engaged in communicating
about environmental issues and advocating for protection of
the natural world and human well-being over the last 30
years. She was the founding director of
Biodiversity Project – a nonprofit communications
organization dedicated to raising public awareness about the
diversity of life on Earth, and the urgent need to take
action to protect it. In 2002, Jane received a
Bay Foundation Biodiversity Leadership Award given to
“individuals with proven capacity to help stem the loss of
biological diversity.”
Previously, Jane worked for the
Sierra
Club, heading up its Midwest office for many years where
she founded the Sierra Club’s Great Lakes program, and later
served as the national director of Ecoregion Programs. Her
policy work spanned air and water quality, toxic pollution,
parks, and wilderness. She received Sierra Club’s Michael
McCloskey award in 1994 for “a distinguished record of
achievement in national or international conservation
causes.” She holds degrees from Michigan State University
(B.A., Communications) and University of Wisconsin, (M.S.,
Land Resources).
Jane is the owner and founder of
Janet Elder Strategies, a consulting firm that
specializes in strategic communications for social change,
with an emphasis on complex environmental challenges such as
biodiversity loss, global warming, ecosystem restoration,
and the role of participatory democracy in achieving
effective solutions.
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