Position Title
Founder and Principal
- Sowing Change Strategies
Ashley Conrad-Saydah (she/her), Chief of Policy and Community Affairs at Vibrant Planet, is a recognized leader in land management, energy and climate change policy. She serves on the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency governing board and Sandia National Laboratories' Energy and Homeland Security advisory board. She previously served as the Deputy Secretary for Climate and Energy Policy at the California Environmental Protection Agency and Renewable Energy Program Manager and Presidential Management Fellow at the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.
Ms. Conrad-Saydah is adept at incorporating scientific information and uncertainty into decision-making and using an inter-disciplinary lens to solve climate and energy challenges. She earned her bachelor’s degree in ecology from Princeton University and her master’s degree from the UC Santa Barbara, Donald Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, where she was a Doris Duke Conservation Fellow.