Staff & Board of Directors
Executive Director: John Swartout
Before joining CCLT as executive director, Swartout was the executive director of the Lottery-funded Great Outdoors Colorado (GOCO) Trust. During his tenure at GOCO, Swartout worked with the GOCO Board to award $297 million in Lottery funds to projects throughout the state. Of that total, $140.1 million is helping to protect 339,107 acres of open space across Colorado.
Previous to his seven years at GOCO, Swartout worked extensively on numerous land preservation, wildlife and outdoor recreation projects in his capacity as a senior policy advisor to Governor Bill Owens and U.S. Senator Wayne Allard. Those efforts included creation of the Rocky Flats Wildlife Refuge, the legislation to create the Great Sand Dunes National Park, designation of the Spanish Peaks and James Peak Wilderness Areas, the opening of three new State Parks, creating new incentives for conservation easements and obtaining bonding authority for GOCO. In his capacity in the Governor’s Office, Swartout was responsible for environmental, energy, natural resource and agriculture issues. He was also the Governor’s liaison to a number of state agencies including the departments of Natural Resources and Agriculture. He worked closely with the U.S. Department of Interior, the Western Governor’s Association and the National Governor’s Association.
Swartout and his wife, Jan, have two young children. They enjoy a variety of outdoor activities including hiking, biking, and skiing.
Director of Operations: Jeannie McGinnis
Jeannie is the Director of Operations for the Colorado Coalition of Land Trusts and oversees financial and adminstrative operations of the organization. Before moving to Colorado in 2006, she worked overseas in Costa Rica as the director of development for a small university and in Nigeria as the financial director for a German government funded water supply project. Jeannie has extensive experience in grant writing, and program and financial management. She has a degree in agriculture from the University of Kentucky and is fluent in Spanish.
Policy Director: Greg Yankee
Greg graduated from the University of Michigan Law School, where he studied natural resource, land use, and nonprofit law. Before Michigan, he studied political science and comparative humanities at Bucknell University and spent a semester at University College Cork in Ireland. Greg brings with him diverse nonprofit experience and expertise having worked on issues ranging from poverty and fair housing to education and youth development.
Program Manager: Amanda Barker
Amanda is the Project Manager for the Center of Excellence, a GOCO grant aiming to improve conservation standards and educational offerings for land trusts and open lands programs in Colorado. She recently received her Masters in Environmental Policy and Planning from the University of Michigan, focusing on conflict resolution and collaborative land management in the West. Her undergraduate degree was in geology from Washington University in St. Louis. She has also served in Peace Corps Madagascar as an agriculture volunteer and worked with a nonprofit there to increase the quality of radio programming on environmental and health topics.
Board of Directors
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