The Salazar Center is proud to announce that Ángel Peña, Executive Director, Nuestra Tierra Conservation Project, will be joining us in Denver, Colorado for the fifth-annual International Symposium on Conservation Impact.
Ángel was born and raised in the Río Bravo valley, he is a first generation Mexican, American and father of three. Àngel has had the opportunity to support and lead strong effective teams that ultimately secured protections totaling millions of acres across the American Southwest. A founding member and current Vice President of the Next 100 Coalition, founder of the Outdoor F.U.T.U.R.E initiative and the founding Executive Director of the Nuestra Tierra Conservation Project he is in the business of people empowerment. Working to empower the people that have true, authentic and deep-rooted ties to the land.
Nuestra Tierra Conservation Project’s mission is to ensure that historically and deliberately excluded communities have access to the outdoors and that our people, history, and values are authentically reflected in public land and conservation management decision making.
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