Ann Astarita is an environmental professional with over 25 years of experience working in areas ranging from environmental consulting to wetlands enforcement, conservation education to community organizing.

Ann holds an M.S. in Environmental Science from the University of New Haven where she was a research assistant while working as an environmental paralegal.

As the Executive Director of Roxbury Land Trust for over six years, she expanded meadow and pollinator habitats, school programs, and bolstered land management policies. She and her husband Steve have two wonderful sons, a fantastic daughter-in-law, and two dogs keeping them active and on the trails.