ConservAmerica Welcomes New Board Members to Support Growth and Expand Geographic Reach
McKie Campbell, Christine Hughes, and Hal Quinn Join ConservAmerica’s Leadership Team
ConservAmerica is pleased to announce the appointment of three additional members – McKie Campbell, Christine Hughes, and Hal Quinn – to its board of directors. They will be pivotal in supporting the organization’s strategic coalition-building efforts and expanding the organization’s geographic reach and impact.
“We are thrilled to have McKie, Christine, and Hal join the ConservAmerica leadership team,” said ConservAmerica president Jeff Kupfer. “As we continue to scale our impact by working with elected officials, organizations, and industry partners, we will be well-served by the addition of McKie, Christine, and Hal, all of whom bring extensive first-hand experience in working collaboratively to build consensus around sound energy, environment, and conservation policy and practices.”
Along with the appointment of the additional board members, ConservAmerica is amplifying its efforts to promote and develop sound public policy solutions that leverage private investment, embrace local solutions, and spur innovation. This move also represents ConservAmerica’s focus on expanding its geographic reach, ensuring its policy positions represent the interests and varying perspectives from across the nation and can remain durable over time.
“It’s an honor to be a part of ConservAmerica, which is focused on building bipartisan consensus around meaningful policy measures that will have a lasting impact on our natural resources and our economy,” said Campbell. “We should do everything we can to protect our natural treasures, while encouraging innovation and market-based solutions, without top-down mandates.”
Campbell is the Senior Advisor and former owner of BlueWater Strategies and brings over 30 years of government, private sector energy, and natural resource experience, including serving as a Visiting Fellow in Policy Practice at the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC). Prior to BlueWater Strategies, Campbell was the Staff Director of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee for U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska. Campbell also served as Deputy Chief of Staff to Alaska Governor Walter Hickel and as Commissioner of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, where he sat on the North Pacific Fishery Management Council and the EVOS Trustee Council.
“I applaud ConservAmerica’s efforts and willingness to bring different perspectives to the table and I am looking forward to contributing to that work,” said Hughes. “We can only solve significant challenges with a variety of solutions that come from coalition-building and collaboration.”
A native San Franciscan, Hughes’ career spans over 25 years of executive level experience in marketing and communications, including as Senior VP Worldwide Marketing for Novell, and VP Marketing for Xerox U.S. Operations. Hughes formerly served as Vice President and was on the Board of Directors at the Pacific Research Institute, (PRI), a nationally recognized free-market think tank in San Francisco. PRI’s mission is to advance free market policy principles in the areas of business and economics, education, health care and the environment. She was a George W. Bush Presidential appointee to the Kennedy Center Advisory Arts Board, a White House appointee to the Navy’s Advisory Subcommittee on Naval History, and a trustee for the Computer History Museum.
“There is an increasing amount of attention on finding sustainable approaches for meeting our natural resource and energy needs, and we can work together to achieve those goals, but we must take pragmatic steps to get there,” said Quinn. “There are ways to align healthy conservation efforts with our economic imperatives. I commend ConservAmerica for expanding its reach to gain input from all corners of our country so that key stakeholders have input into shaping policy, and I look forward to being a part of that effort.”
Quinn has 40 years of experience in natural resource, energy and environmental law and policy, and previously served as president and chief executive officer of the National Mining Association (NMA). Quinn has appeared before House and Senate committees on more than 25 occasions to testify about a wide range of natural resource, energy, environmental and regulatory policy issues. His commentary has appeared in national and regional media outlets including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, Washington Times, USA Today, and the National Journal.