EPCC Lunch Meeting - Lowcountry Land Trust
Please join us for a presentation about the Lowcountry Land Trust as well as updates from Bob Baldwin on key issues in the conservation easement arena with regard to IRA enforcement and attacks on easements. Lunch will be at High Cotton located at 199 E Bay Street.
Ashley Demosthenes, President and CEO, and lifelong resident of Charleston,
began her formal conservation career in 1998 with The Nature Conservancy in
South Carolina. She worked for sixteen years negotiating local, state and federal land
acquisition projects and conservation easements across the state. Ashley became
Lowcountry Land Trust’s first Director of Conservation in 2013, managing
the conservation and land stewardship program for the Trust. In March of 2015, Ashley
was promoted to President & CEO. Ashley oversees the entire operation of the Trust
with a special emphasis on strategic conservation leadership, fundraising and public
policy. Ashley graduated with a B.A. in Environmental Studies from the University of
Vermont. She is a Liberty Fellow from the class of 2019, serves on the Land Trust
Alliance National Board, the Alliance’s Leadership Council, and leads the South
Carolina Land Trust Network as Vice Chair of the Board. She is deeply rooted in the
Lowcountry where she and her husband and three children live, work, and play.
