Landesa
Leonard Rolfes Jr. is a Chief Operating Officer at Landesa since January 2019. Previously, Leonard served in various roles including Senior Property Rights Advisor at Millennium Challenge Corporation, Chief of Party at The Cloudburst Group, and Attorney and Land Tenure Specialist at Rural Development Institute (RDI). Leonard holds a Juris Doctor (J.D.) from the University of Washington and a Bachelor's Degree in History from Tulane University.
Landesa
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Landesa partners with governments and local organizations to ensure that rural women and men living in extreme poverty have secure rights over the land they depend on. Founded as the Rural Development Institute in 1981, Landesa has helped more than 720 million people strengthen legal control over their land in the last five years. When people have secure land rights, they can invest in their land to sustainably increase their harvests and reap the benefits—improved nutrition, health, education, resilience, and opportunity—for generations.