Emily Wood has been appointed the new executive director of the Door County Land Trust. Wood starts her new position on August 1, 2022 and will be replacing Tom Clay, who announced his departure as the executive director in January and left the organization in March.
Wood has been the executive director of the authorized affiliate of the National Wildlife Federation in Indiana since 2017, working on regional conservation efforts like the Great Lakes invasive carp strategy and Indiana’s monarch butterfly conservation plan. She first moved into the nonprofit realm in 2013 as the director of a community Green Space program at Keep Indianapolis Beautiful, Inc.
Prior to her time in natural resource conservation, she worked for 12 years in public horticulture specializing in the utilization of native plants, including at the Indianapolis Zoo and White River Gardens, and at the historic Garfield Park Conservatory and Sunken Gardens in Indianapolis.
Read about the announcement in this article by the Door County Daily News. Learn more about Wood and watch a video in this blog post by the land trust.
Photo by Door County Land Trust.
