Jazmin Varela
Jazmin Varela has worked as The Conservation Fund’s Associate Director for Conservation Services since 2016 and was previously the Strategic Conservation Planning Information Manager (since 2007). She has served as the lead green infrastructure network designer for Green Infrastructure Plans in Angelina County, TX; Central Indiana; Chicago; Columbia-Boone County, MO; and Cameron County, TX. She has also assisted with design plans in the Chicago region, Houston-Galveston region, Los Angeles County, fifteen state-wide plans, and on multiple ecosystem services valuation projects.
Jazmin is interested in large landscape collaborative conservation, engaging communities as active participants of conservation outcomes, sustainable food production, and water and climate change impacts on communities and the environment. She was first exposed to ECWA while attending Duke University and began volunteering for the organization in 2005. Jazmin earned a Master of Environmental Management from Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment with a certificate in geospatial analysis. She earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Geography from Appalachian State University. She currently resides in Chapel Hill, NC.
Jazmin is interested in large landscape collaborative conservation, engaging communities as active participants of conservation outcomes, sustainable food production, and water and climate change impacts on communities and the environment. She was first exposed to ECWA while attending Duke University and began volunteering for the organization in 2005. Jazmin earned a Master of Environmental Management from Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment with a certificate in geospatial analysis. She earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Geography from Appalachian State University. She currently resides in Chapel Hill, NC.
