After a career as a lawyer, a Mendocino Coast local has changed paths to work towards land conservation in her home community. This September, Emily Griffen joined the Mendocino Land Trust as our new Administrative Coordinator. 

As the Land Trust has grown — now taking on more projects than ever — so has the daily behind-the-scenes work and mountains of paper and emails to be organized and processed. For the last four years, MLT’s business manager Heidi Sorenson did an amazing job keeping the paperwork deluge from eating up too much of our conservation staff’s limited time — but there is only so much one person can do, even when that person is the indefatigable Heidi! Sorenson has now taken on a new role as the Land Trust’s Chief Financial Officer, and we knew we needed someone organized to tackle the day-to-day this-and-that. Never in our wildest dreams did we think we would find someone as organized and accomplished as Emily to fill that role!