Steven Whitney

Steve Whitney is Senior Program Officer with the Seattle-based Bullitt Foundation. He is engaged on issues of regional planning and landscape resilience, specifically the protection of natural infrastructure and associated ecosystem services in the metropolitan regions of the Pacific Northwest. Previously he was on the staff of The Wilderness Society, first as director of its National Parks Program in Washington D.C., and later as Northwest Regional Director and Deputy Vice President. His early career included work as a land-use planning consultant, and as a congressional aide to then Representative Leon Panetta of California. He has served as board member and chair of the Biodiversity Funders Group and the Washington Environmental Council, and served on the City of Alexandria, Virginia’s Environmental Policy Commission. Steve holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Utah State University, and a Master of Arts in Architecture and Urban Planning from the University of California, Los Angeles.