Team Member

Katie Deuel joined CLLC in 2022 as Senior Director of Conservation, working across our diverse programs to ensure they are strategic, effective, inclusive, connected and supported.  She has been a leader in biodiversity and large landscape conservation, nature-based education, and building sustainable, circular economies, as well as working extensively as a facilitator and mediator in complex

As the Communications and Development Coordinator, Katherine brings an eagerness for connectivity conservation and wildlife protection. Providing broad support to the Center’s Communications and Development departments, Katherine concentrates on digital marketing, writing, facilitating donor fundraising, and supporting public and private grant development. Prior to The Center, Katherine attended the University of St Andrews in Scotland

As Chief Operations Officer, Kathy works to ensure financial sustainability, manage organizational risk and implement human resource best practices. Hired to help build a strong foundation to support the Center’s rapid growth, Kathy concentrates on internal process and capacity improvements, as well as providing leadership around strategic planning. Kathy’s career has been focused on non-profit

Megan Parker joined CLLC in 2021 as Conservation Project Director, where she brings skills as a conservation scientist working internationally and across the U.S.  Megan’s career includes co-founding Working Dogs for Conservation, where she led research to develop training and deploying dogs to detect endangered and invasive species, illegally trafficked wildlife and non-invasively identify individual

At the Center, Annika provides science leadership and advises on connectivity projects and programs across the organization. She works with the management team to guide the Center’s science strategy. Annika has a broad background in ecology and conservation biology and has focused on ecological connectivity in her studies and work. She has contributed papers on

Kylie works at the Center as a road ecologist, advancing the development and implementation of wildlife friendly transportation policies and projects in international, federal, state, tribal, and local contexts. She brings 15 years of diverse science and conservation experience to the Center. She’s worked on road ecology and habitat connectivity since 2005 when she initiated