Meet Heather Cole, Puget Sound Neighborhood Relations Supervisor — The Nature Conservancy in Washington

I’m the Puget Sound Neighborhood Relations Supervisor. My work focuses on working with floodplain communities on reaching past silos and discovering holistic and built-in options to wholesome river methods.  On the coronary heart of my work is a collaborative method and utilizing participatory strategies to create neighborhood pushed options.  A few of my favourite initiatives contains Photovoice for Agricultural Resilience, being the co-lead for the Floodplains by Design Tradition and Capability Motion Group and main the event of a Neighborhood of Observe for the Indigenous Landscapes and Communities Technique. 

I accomplished my Grasp’s Diploma in Worldwide Growth and Environmental Evaluation at Monash College in Australia. There I targeted on the best way to successfully mobilize communities to sort out our most urgent environmental points. As a Washington native, I’ve been lucky to have the ability to put these expertise into observe right here. I’ve labored within the pure useful resource and neighborhood constructing area for over 15 years.

I’m grateful for all of the presents that nature has to supply and you a lot discover me meandering within the mountains amongst the huckleberries.  I additionally take pleasure in training yoga and being a lifelong scholar of Chinese language and energic medication.