Lauren Day

Florida State Director, Conservation Acquisition

Since joining The Conservation Fund in 2008, Lauren has helped to protect more than 50,000 acres, from small neighborhood parks to vast working lands.

Before joining the Fund, she served for 5 years as the Executive Director of Alachua Conservation Trust, a nationally accredited, non-profit land trust, where she oversaw all conservation, communications, development, and administrative activities. She has also served as a commercial property manager and as the Director of Greening UF, an initiative to reduce the environmental impact of the University of Florida that later became the university’s Office of Sustainability.

Lauren earned her M.A. in Real Estate and Urban Analysis from the University of Florida in 2001 and a B.A. in Environmental Studies, from Eckerd College in 1998. In 2010, she was awarded a Regional Director’s Conservation Award by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for her work conserving some of the last remaining habitat for a federally Endangered cactus.

Contact: lday@conservationfund.org   Office: Gainesville, Florida