Jazmin Varela
Jazmin Varela works 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, and Columbia,-Boone County-MO and Cameron County-TX. She has worked as part of the design team for 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, 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 since 2005. Jazmin earned a Master of Environmental Management from Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences with a certificate in geospatial analysis. She earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Geography from Appalachian State University. She resides in Chapel Hill, NC.
Jazmin is interested in large landscape collaborative conservation, engaging communities as active participants of conservation outcomes, sustainable food production, 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 since 2005. Jazmin earned a Master of Environmental Management from Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences with a certificate in geospatial analysis. She earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Geography from Appalachian State University. She resides in Chapel Hill, NC.
