Jill Ozarski

Jill Ozarski joined the Walton Family Foundation in 2016. She works with grantee partners across the seven-state Colorado River region to conserve water, restore watersheds, and leverage conservation funding. Prior to joining the Foundation, she served as the Senior Natural Resources Policy Advisor to U.S. Senator Mark Udall and held other leadership and policy positions with NGOs. She is a 2015 Fulbright-Ian Axford Fellow in Public Policy where she worked in New Zealand to advance public-private partnerships. She is a graduate of Southampton College (B.S.) and Duke University, where she earned a Master of Public Policy and Master of Environmental Management. Jill lives in Denver, Colorado and volunteers as a member of the Colorado Recreational Trails Committee and the Colorado Conservation Easement Oversight Commission.