Minnesota Land Trust
Claire Colliander currently serves as the Director of Finance and Operations at Minnesota Land Trust since September 2021. Prior to this role, Claire held multiple leadership positions, including Director of Finance & IT at the Epilepsy Foundation of Minnesota, where financial leadership was provided for an organization serving families affected by seizure disorders. Claire also served as Interim Executive Director at CliftonLarsonAllen, delivering CFO/Controller services to various clients, and held the position of Finance Manager at The Jungle Theater, where Claire contributed to achieving multi-year budget surpluses. Earlier in the career, Claire was Business Manager at The Schubert Club, overseeing financial reporting and cash management, and worked as a Communications Assistant at VocalEssence. Claire holds an MBA in Management from the University of St. Thomas and a BA in English from St. Olaf College.
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Minnesota Land Trust
The Minnesota Land Trust is a private, nonprofit organization that works across Minnesota with private landowners and partners to permanently protect land and shoreline and restore habitat to preserve and improve the scenic beauty, environmental services, and recreation value of our rich and diverse natural spaces. This work is more critical now than ever as we confront the twin threats of accelerating climate change and land development. Natural climate solutions including habitat defragmentation, increasing biodiversity, and carbon grounding are a part of every protection and restoration project we complete. Specifically The Minnesota Land Trust helps conserve the state's most vital natural lands through establishing and monitoring permanent, legal conservation easements. We have protected more than 75,000 acres and 460 miles of shoreline, and restored 4,886 acres of land in the most critical landscapes statewide. Our programming also includes actively connecting people to meaningful nature experiences in order to build a conservation ethos to seed future generations of conservationists. To date, we've also protected over 35 camps, nature centers, and environmental learning centers.