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For Immediate Release:
January 10, 2008 |
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 Sacramento, CA -- The Planning and Conservation League, a statewide environmental advocacy organization, is evolving to take advantage of the particular skills, experience and interests of its leadership team.
Traci Sheehan will take on the day to day running of the organization as Executive Director, starting, February 1, 2008, allowing current Director Gary Patton more time to focus on the policy issues that are his hallmark in making California a better place to live.
As the new Executive Director, Sheehan will focus her attention on increasing the capacity of PCL to affect those changes.
"Ms. Sheehan has demonstrated a real talent for organizational management, and has already established herself as a leader for PCL, as we continue our forty-three year tradition of environmental advocacy in the California State Capitol," said PCL President John Van De Kamp.
For the past six months, Sheehan has been assuming increasing management responsibility, and her organizational and fundraising success is already in evidence.
"The PCL-PCLF Symposium, coming up this weekend, is virtually sold out," Sheehan said, "we now eight have advocates at the capitol, we have several new organizational members, and a number of new grant-funded projects are now underway."
Sheehan brings over fifteen years of non-profit management experience, including leading the diverse groups of the California Wild Heritage Campaign – an alliance that is similar to the league structure of PCL. She is a graduate of Rutgers University and lives in Coloma with her husband and son. A brief biography of Sheehan is posted on the PCL website, here.
Patton, who will assume the title of General Counsel, has been associated with PCL since the early 1980's, as a Board Member, as long time Board President, as General Counsel, and most recently as Executive Director, stated "This is the perfect evolution of my contribution to the organization. I am delighted, personally, that I will soon be able to spend more time on the key legislative, litigation, project and policy matters in which PCL is playing a leadership role.
The Planning and Conservation League is a nonpartisan, nonprofit alliance of individuals and conservation organizations working at the state, local, and national levels to protect and restore California's natural environment.
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