Jane Bacchieri is the Executive Director for the Elakha Alliance, a nonprofit focused on sea otter reintroduction and marine ecosystem restoration in Oregon. She has over 25 years of experience in natural resources management, including 11 years with the City of Portland's Bureau of Environmental Services leading the Watershed Services and Integrated Planning groups. Her previous experience also includes working with the National Policy Consensus Center at Portland State and serving as a natural resources policy advisor for Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski, where she worked on watershed and water quality issues and Oregon's implementation of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). Jane has worked on coastal, river, and watershed management issues for the Oregon Coastal Management Program, South Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, and the National Park Service, and spent two years as an environment volunteer with the U.S. Peace Corps in the Kingdom of Tonga. Jane holds a Master of Environmental Management degree from Duke University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology from the University of Vermont. She lives in Portland with her husband, Kip, and their dog, Bella, and spends her free time training for marathons, traveling and enjoying the outdoors in Oregon, and learning to play the piano.