Jon is an environmental planner with the Appalachian Trail Conservancy. In his role at ATC he directs the South Mountain Partnership, a landscape-scale conservation project in south-central Pennsylvania that is managed as a public-private partnership between ATC and the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. His work is focused on building a collaborative process to identify a collective future vision for the landscape – one that protects the unique natural, cultural, recreational, and agricultural resources of the region. Jon has previously worked for the Henry P. Kendall Foundation, a Boston-based environmental grant-making foundation, and the Berkshire Natural Resources Council, a county-level land trust in western Massachusetts. Jon is a graduate of Middlebury College (BA in Biology and Environmental Studies, 2005) and Yale University’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies (Master of Environment Management, 2012). He is a Doris Duke Conservation Fellow and a Senior Fellow with the Environmental Leadership Program.  

Jon embraces any opportunity to get outside to breathe in fresh air and explore the world via the two wheels of his bicycle, the glide of his skis, or the pace of his own two feet. He enjoys reading, writing, and taking photographs in his leisure time (although professes no great skill in any of those). In all of this, he is happiest when joined by his two companions: his beautiful wife Kristen and the world’s greatest dog, Rangely.