Amy has been an environmental leader for over twenty years. As a land use attorney in Kansas City, Missouri she worked on major public-private partnerships to rebuild the city’s urban core. She served as the first staff attorney at Friends of the San Juans in Washington State where she worked to protect wetlands, marine resources and the endangered southern resident killer whales. Also in Washington, she represented the Makah Tribe of Neah Bay to create the nation’s first Tribal Office of Marin Affairs that addressed state and federal oil spill prevention and response policy. In Colorado, she served as the executive director of the Orient Land Trust where they conserved hundreds of acres of land and senior water rights. She has been the Executive Director of the Environmental Action Committee of West Marin since September 2010, where the work tirelessly to protect coastal, ocean, and other sensitive resources and champion the protection of Drakes Estero, the West Coast’s first marine wilderness area.