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Rand Wentworth is on the faculty of Harvard University where he received the Carballo Award for Excellence in Teaching and teaches environmental policy, leadership, and negotiation. From 2002-2016, Rand served as president of the Land Trust Alliance, a DC-based national conservation organization that leads over 1,000 land trusts with 12,000 staff, 14,000 board members, and 6.3 million members. Collectively, these groups have conserved over 61 million acres. Rand is widely recognized for expanding the pace and quality of land conservation in America.

Rand has testified before the U.S. Congress on multiple occasions and built a bi-partisan coalition that convinced Congress to pass environmental legislation. He created three NGOs including the Atlanta office of the Trust for Public Land where he tripled the size of the national park honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. and protected a 70-mile national park along the Chattahoochee River.

Prior to his career in conservation, he was president of a commercial real estate development company. He is graduate of Yale University and holds an MBA in finance from Cornell University.

Rand first walked on the Appalachian Trail at 12 years old when his father took him to the Delaware Water Gap and they hiked to Sunfish Pond. Though he moved often, he quickly found the A.T. to be his spiritual home. Through continued trips with his father, and now hikes with his wife and two sons, Rand has section hiked Katahdin to Harpers Ferry.