Leigh Youngblood served as Executive Director at the Mount Grace Land Conservation Trust for over twenty-seven years. In 1997, she helped found and facilitate North Quabbin Regional Landscape Partnership, a then-novel collaboration that inspired a network of fifty such partnerships across the eastern U.S. In 2011, Youngblood was appointed by Governor Deval Patrick as co-chair with Senator Stephen Brewer to the Massachusetts Commission on Financing Forest Conservation. Youngblood is now a consultant with Interim Executive Solutions.
