Nicole Wooten
Member
Nicole Wooten is the Associate Director of Land Protection at The Nature Conservancy (TNC) PA/DE, where she conserves key Appalachians lands, which is one of TNC’s top global final landscapes. She has 14+ years of experience in the conservation field, including as Director of Natural Resources at the Hudson Highlands Land Trust, Corridor Stewardship Coordinator at ATC, and Environmental Education Volunteer in the Peace Corps - El Salvador. Her work has included land acquisitions, municipal conservation planning, easement/preserve stewardship, nonprofit-federal-volunteer partnerships, and community-driven landscape-scale conservation in climate resilient corridors.
Previously, she served on the ATC Stewardship Council and A.T. Landscape Protection Steering Committee. She also served on the New National Trails Committee for the Partnership for the National Trails System and the Society for Wilderness Stewardship board. She volunteers in local community mutual aid and her neighborhood tree planting committee in Philadelphia, and is part of a First Light learning cohort.
Nicole holds a Masters of Environmental Management from the Yale School of the Environment and Bachelors degrees in Environmental Studies and English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She enjoys day hikes on the AT.