Jim Petterson

Jim is Trust for Public Land’s Mountain West Region vice president, overseeing the organization’s Northern Rockies (MT, ID, WY) and Texas Programs, and providing day-to-day management of its Colorado & Southwest Program (CO, UT, AZ, NM). Together, these teams are working with local communities in some of the fastest-growing urban, suburban and rural areas to generate climate, health and equity outcomes by creating parks, conserving priority lands, reimagining schoolyards and building and enhancing trails and greenways.   

 Prior to joining Trust for Public Land, Jim spent 17 years at The Nature Conservancy, including 12 years in a variety of senior marketing leadership roles, such as chief communications officer and communications director; and five years as senior advisor to the CEO. Prior to joining the Conservancy, Jim spent 10 years working in Washington, D.C. as a communications director and legislative assistant for a senior member of Congress and as a press secretary for the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture. Jim is an avid trail runner, bushwhacker and peak bagger. When he’s not visiting his kids at their colleges in the Florida Keys and Berkeley, California, Jim lives in Denver, Colorado with his spouse, Jeanine.