Connie Manes provides organizational consulting services to nonprofit conservation organizations throughout the northeast, with a focus on Land Trust Standards & Practices and Land Trust Accreditation.

She is the Executive Director of the accredited Kent Land Trust, and is a member of the Litchfield Hills Greenprint Collaborative, a Regional Conservation Partnership of 34 land trusts in northwest Connecticut.

Since 2013, she has also served as a Circuit Rider for the Land Trust Alliance, providing direct assistance to small and all-volunteer land trusts. Connie holds a Master’s Degree in Public Administration from Pace University and a Juris Doctorate from New York University School of Law. She chairs Kent’s Conservation Commission.

In her free time, she can be found at the hockey rink with her sons, running or hiking, or searching for critters in local streams.