Mike Stevens
State Director, Washington
Seattle, Washington
Areas of Expertise
conservation, sustainable agriculture, field science
Biography
Mike Stevens has served as TNC’s Washington State Director since 2012. In this role, he works with colleagues, trustees and partners across Washington, the Western United States and Canada and around the world to tackle climate change and sustain nature and human communities.
The Washington team’s recent milestones include the enactment in Washington of one of the world’s most robust climate and environmental justice policy and funding frameworks, and progress in land and water conservation in the Olympic Rainforest and the Emerald Edge, the central Cascade Mountains and Puget Sound. Mike is deeply engaged in cross-boundary work in philanthropy, climate action and Indigenous-led conservation. He is committed to supporting a diverse and talented next generation of leaders and growing an inclusive and powerful environmental movement.
Over the past 25 years, Mike has worked in a range of conservation leadership roles. During Mike’s tenure as President of Lava Lake Land & Livestock in Idaho, the company and partners received national recognition for their work advancing landscape-scale conservation, sustainable agriculture and coexistence with wolves. His early career experience includes five years with TNC in New Hampshire and Idaho as a scientist and preserve manager, as well as working as a field scientist and mountaineering and natural history instructor in the Western U.S. and Alaska.
He holds an M.S. from the Field Naturalist Program at the University of Vermont where he was a Switzer Environmental Fellow and B.A. in Biology from Middlebury College.
Mike lives in Seattle with his wife Liz Mitchell. He loves spending time with family and friends, reading, birding, growing and sharing food, and he is a dedicated cross-country skier and trail runner. Mike was born and grew up in Mallorca, Spain, is fluent in Spanish and has traveled globally to learn about places and cultures.