Make connections, build relationships, and influence decision-makers.
Conservation Communications works with non-profits, corporations, foundations, and businesses to expand their reach, power, and change-making abilities to advance conservation.
Conservation Communications works with non-profits, corporations, foundations, and businesses to expand their reach, power, and change-making abilities to advance conservation.
Anna with the late Minnesota Senator Paul Wellstone while Anna interned with his office working on immigration and refugee issues in 2000.
Anna Peterson, president and founder of Conservation Communications, has worked professionally for over 20 years with a range of constituency groups, non-profits, small businesses, foundations, and large corporations on efforts focused on corporate social responsibility, anti-sweatshops, human rights, immigration, refugee rights, public health, natural resources, wilderness and roadless areas, 1872 mining law reform, smoke-free communities, food safety, wild salmon, public lands, and climate change issues.
She has worked with the late United States Senator Paul Wellstone, The Resource Center of the Americas, Global Exchange, Alaska Wilderness League, The Alaska Coalition, M+R Strategic Services, National Environmental Trust, Pew Environment Group, The Sustainability Alliance of Southwest Colorado, San Juan Citizens Alliance, The Wilderness Society, Verde Brand Communications, The Campion Foundation, Friends of Cedar Mesa, Wild Hope Film, SDK Communications, Conservation Lands Foundation, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR), The McKnight Foundation, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, and others. She also serves as the Executive Director of The Mountain Pact.
Through this work, Anna has acted as a campaign manager, organizer, event planner, coalition leader, trainer, photographer, ad buyer, speaker, graphic designer, and media resource person organizing diverse coalitions from a range of constituency groups. These groups include members of faith communities, youth, hunters and anglers, breweries, Top Chefs and James Beard Award winners, business owners, outdoor industry professionals and athletes, national and local elected officials, Indigenous communities, municipalities, universities, farmers, ranchers, labor unions, military personnel, veterans, and others.
She has worked on conservation efforts across the American West, including Alaska and all eleven western states of Washington, Oregon, California, Montana, Nevada, Idaho, Wyoming, Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, and Colorado as well as in Minnesota, Maine, and Florida. Anna can translate language used in national campaigns and policy-speak to effectively resonate with and highlight local voices.
For six years Anna was the Director of Operations and Human Resources at a communications firm that specializes in integrated brand communications for companies in the outdoor industries. Anna managed the company's Human Resources, IT, financial, legal, administrative, conservation, and operational needs for up to 30 staff in up to 12 offices that served over 50 clients both internationally and nationally in 20 states. Under her direction and leadership, the agency became an Outside Magazine Best Places to Work in 2016. In addition to managing a multi-million dollar budget, Anna designed and implemented most agency systems, policies, and procedures which helped the agency grow. While there, Anna was also a Conservation Alliance Ambassador and helped organize and manage media work around outdoor brand efforts to protect the Bears Ears National Monument in Utah. She attended Outdoor Retailer Tradeshows for over 15 years until the show moved back to Utah. She leads the organizing of the Elevate Conservation: Outdoors for All events which are now held at The Big Gear Show - in Colorado.
Anna served on the Board of Directors for San Juan Citizens Alliance for two terms; six years. She has served on the Sustainability Alliance of Southwest Colorado (SASCO) Board of Directors for ten years and she organizes local sustainability events and Durango’s monthly Green Drinks with 24 local organizations participating each month. She has a BA in Studio Art, Political Science, and Environmental Studies from St. Olaf College and a MS in Environmental Studies from the University of Montana where she was a Doris Duke Conservation Fellow.
When not working on conservation efforts, Anna spends time outside in and around the Four Corners area with her fellow conservationist and photographer husband Tim and spoiled rescue dog Greta. Anna has lived in some of the West's best rural mountain towns including Bend, Oregon, Missoula, Montana, and Durango, Colorado where she's lived for over 15 years. She enjoys art and photography projects and is often working on (and continually expanding!) her family's high desert garden. She's an avid traveler and hopes to soon add to her long list of countries visited. You can view more of her photography here: www.annapetersonphoto.com.
She has worked with the late United States Senator Paul Wellstone, The Resource Center of the Americas, Global Exchange, Alaska Wilderness League, The Alaska Coalition, M+R Strategic Services, National Environmental Trust, Pew Environment Group, The Sustainability Alliance of Southwest Colorado, San Juan Citizens Alliance, The Wilderness Society, Verde Brand Communications, The Campion Foundation, Friends of Cedar Mesa, Wild Hope Film, SDK Communications, Conservation Lands Foundation, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR), The McKnight Foundation, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, and others. She also serves as the Executive Director of The Mountain Pact.
Through this work, Anna has acted as a campaign manager, organizer, event planner, coalition leader, trainer, photographer, ad buyer, speaker, graphic designer, and media resource person organizing diverse coalitions from a range of constituency groups. These groups include members of faith communities, youth, hunters and anglers, breweries, Top Chefs and James Beard Award winners, business owners, outdoor industry professionals and athletes, national and local elected officials, Indigenous communities, municipalities, universities, farmers, ranchers, labor unions, military personnel, veterans, and others.
She has worked on conservation efforts across the American West, including Alaska and all eleven western states of Washington, Oregon, California, Montana, Nevada, Idaho, Wyoming, Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, and Colorado as well as in Minnesota, Maine, and Florida. Anna can translate language used in national campaigns and policy-speak to effectively resonate with and highlight local voices.
For six years Anna was the Director of Operations and Human Resources at a communications firm that specializes in integrated brand communications for companies in the outdoor industries. Anna managed the company's Human Resources, IT, financial, legal, administrative, conservation, and operational needs for up to 30 staff in up to 12 offices that served over 50 clients both internationally and nationally in 20 states. Under her direction and leadership, the agency became an Outside Magazine Best Places to Work in 2016. In addition to managing a multi-million dollar budget, Anna designed and implemented most agency systems, policies, and procedures which helped the agency grow. While there, Anna was also a Conservation Alliance Ambassador and helped organize and manage media work around outdoor brand efforts to protect the Bears Ears National Monument in Utah. She attended Outdoor Retailer Tradeshows for over 15 years until the show moved back to Utah. She leads the organizing of the Elevate Conservation: Outdoors for All events which are now held at The Big Gear Show - in Colorado.
Anna served on the Board of Directors for San Juan Citizens Alliance for two terms; six years. She has served on the Sustainability Alliance of Southwest Colorado (SASCO) Board of Directors for ten years and she organizes local sustainability events and Durango’s monthly Green Drinks with 24 local organizations participating each month. She has a BA in Studio Art, Political Science, and Environmental Studies from St. Olaf College and a MS in Environmental Studies from the University of Montana where she was a Doris Duke Conservation Fellow.
When not working on conservation efforts, Anna spends time outside in and around the Four Corners area with her fellow conservationist and photographer husband Tim and spoiled rescue dog Greta. Anna has lived in some of the West's best rural mountain towns including Bend, Oregon, Missoula, Montana, and Durango, Colorado where she's lived for over 15 years. She enjoys art and photography projects and is often working on (and continually expanding!) her family's high desert garden. She's an avid traveler and hopes to soon add to her long list of countries visited. You can view more of her photography here: www.annapetersonphoto.com.
