Jen Kovecses is the Assistant Director of Programs for the Salazar Center where she leads the organization’s program strategy and implementation, including the annual Salazar Symposium on Conservation Impact and other convenings, sustaining diverse partnerships across North America, and developing the Center’s evolving climate resilience work. She helps bring diverse partners – whether practitioners, policymakers, researchers, or funders – together to share and develop innovative ideas and solutions around landscape conservation, equity, and climate resilience to meet the Center’s mission and strategic goals.
Prior to joining the Center, Jen was executive director at the Coalition for the Poudre River Watershed for more than seven years, where she focused on post-fire restoration, forest, river, and wildfire resilience. In that work, she brought diverse stakeholders together to plan and implement strategies and projects to increase cross-boundary watershed resilience.
