Anna Peterson

Executive Director

Anna Peterson joined the Mountain Pact as Executive Director in February 2018. Originally from Minnesota, she’s lived in many of the West’s rural mountain towns including Bend, Oregon, Missoula, Montana, and most recently in her current home of over fifteen years - Durango, Colorado.

Anna has worked professionally for over 20 years with a range of constituency groups, non-profits, small businesses, foundations, and large corporations on efforts focused on corporate social responsibility, anti-sweatshops, human rights, immigration, refugee rights, public health, public lands, national monuments, and climate change issues. She has worked in or with the outdoor recreation industry for the past fifteen years. Anna runs her own communications agency, Conservation Communications. 

Anna has worked on conservation efforts in all states across the American West, as well as in Minnesota and Florida. She has a BA in Studio Art, Political Science, and Environmental Studies from St.Olaf College, and a MS in Environmental Studies from the University of Montana where she was a Doris Duke Conservation Fellow.

When not working on conservation efforts, Anna spends time outside in and around the Four Corners area with her fellow conservationist and photographer husband Tim and loyal rescue dog Greta. She enjoys art and photography projects and is often working on (and continually expanding!) her family's high desert garden. She's an avid traveler and hopes to soon add to her long list of countries visited.

Megan HarBaugh

Project Coordinator