Staff

Below is a list of selected TCF staff involved in Green Infrastructure projects. For more information on other organizations working on green infrastructure, please see the Partners page.

William L. Allen, III is the Director of Strategic Conservation at The Conservation Fund in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. With the Fund since 1994, Will is responsible for managing and delivering the Fund's projects involving green infrastructure planning, rapid open space assessments, compatible land use planning, and other strategic conservation planning efforts. Will is the co-editor of the Journal of Conservation Planning, a member of the American Planning Association and a founding member of the Society for Conservation GIS. Will received his Bachelor of Arts in Urban Studies from Stanford University in 1993 and his Master of Regional Planning from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1995.

Kris Hoellen is Director of the Conservation Fund's Conservation Leadership Network. She comes to The Fund from the URS Corporation where she was responsible for managing a thirty-two member group of natural and cultural resource management specialists. Prior to joining the URS Corporation, she served as Director of Environmental Programs for the American Association of State Highway Transportation Officials (AASHTO) where she was the inaugural director of the AASHTO Center for Environmental Excellence. Prior to her work at AASHTO, she was a senior program officer for the Transportation Research Board (TRB)/National Academy of Sciences. Prior to joining TRB, she served for 9 years as the legislative director/associate deputy director for the Association of State and Territorial Solid Waste Management Officials, a trade association representing the waste divisions of the State Environmental Protection Agencies. She received a bachelor's degree from Emory University and a master's degree in Environmental Science and Policy from Johns Hopkins University.

Ted Weber has been the Fund's Strategic Conservation Analyst since May 2005 and designed the Delaware Ecological Network. Mr. Weber has over ten years experience developing spatial and temporal models for environmental planning and management and in developing applications to assess landscapes for their ecological value and function using principles of landscape ecology, conservation biology, systems ecology, restoration ecology, and wildlife biology. Mr. Weber served as Project manager for Maryland’s Green Infrastructure Assessment, Chesapeake Bay watershed habitat assessment (part of the Resource Lands Assessment) and the Delmarva Conservation Corridor habitat assessment. Mr. Weber has over ten years experience using ArcGIS, ARC/INFO and ArcView GIS software for spatial modeling, conservation and restoration planning, landscape and wildlife habitat analyses, and other purposes; and over ten years experience doing field work, especially wetland and forest assessment.