Annie Burke

Executive Director

Annie is passionate about people and place, connecting and convening, and partnering for impact. Annie worked at the Bay Area Open Space Council from 2010-2017, including 4 years as Deputy Director, where she led the organization's convenings, coalition building, fundraising, and communications efforts. While at the Bay Area Open Space Council, some of the efforts she led or participated in include: Incorporation as a 501c3 nonprofit corporation; creation and launch of Outdoor Voice; and production of the annual Open Space Conference and the quarterly Gatherings on a range of topics including stewardship, fundraising, policy, climate change, working lands, and more.

Since January 2017, she has worked on projects that engage more people in supporting parks, result in a more strategic and focused approach to our collective work, and facilitate more collaboration to achieve shared goals. Some clients include: Save the Redwoods League, Bay Area Ridge Trail Council, East Bay Regional Parks District, Youth Outside, Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, and California Landscape Stewardship Network.

She has produced three films about partnerships between Native Americans and land conservation organizations, and the films have been shown at festivals and conferences around the country. Prior to the Bay Area Open Space Council, she worked at various nonprofits including as the Development Director for Rubicon Programs and as a member of a change management team at Kaiser Permanente. 

Annie earned a Masters in Organizational Development from University of San Francisco and a BA in Psychology from Denison University. She currently serves as the Alameda County Board of Supervisors representative on the East Bay Regional Park District’s Park Advisory Committee. She also serves as an Advisor for the Center for Nature and Health at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland, and works with the California Landscape Stewardship Network on changing the conversation about land stewardship.

(510) 333 7367
annie@openspacecouncil.org

Tom Robinson

Project Director

Tom Robinson is the Project Director for the Conservation Lands Network. His goals are to help communities view their immediate landscape as the source of their well-being, economic prosperity, and security, and to strengthen the link between local conservation priorities and investments and regional, state and federal priorities and incentive programs. As a landscape ecologist and conservation practitioner in the San Francisco Bay Area for the past 16 years, Tom brings together scientists, state and local government staff, and NGO partners to integrate environmental data, fill critical gaps, and develop adaptive spatial decision support systems to steer conservation policies and actions toward impactful outcomes. Tom has had the privilege of working for the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District and most recently as a conservation planner for the Sonoma County Agricultural Preservation and Open Space District. Tom holds a bachelor’s degree in ecology from U.C. San Diego, is a Master’s Candidate in geographic information science at San Francisco State University, and is a Switzer Environmental Leadership Fellow. Tom is driven by a deep connection with nature and takes immeasurable pleasure in introducing his two children to its wonders, especially by bike, boat, and boot.

707 758 1761
tom@openspacecouncil.org