Elizabeth Ward

Elizabeth Ward has more than two decades of conservation communications experience. She served most recently as chief marketing and communications officer at the Land Trust Alliance, where she helped lead the organization through several periods of rapid change and growth, ushered Alliance communications fully into the digital age and garnered a national award for Saving Land magazine. She conceived, researched and championed a national public awareness campaign bringing an appreciation of the benefits and impact of land conservation to entirely new audiences, who are primed to support this work. Elizabeth also partnered with the Alliance's government relations team to make permanent the enhanced federal tax deduction for conservation easement donations and secure the passage of the Charitable Conservation Easement Program Integrity Act. 

Before joining the Alliance, she was a communications leader at The Nature Conservancy, where, among other roles, she was responsible for the Conservancy's flagship marketing channels, including the award-winning Nature Conservancy magazine, media relations, brand marketing, film and video, digital marketing and strategic communications for the Conservancy's policy, strategy and science work. In addition, she has more than 20 years' experience across print and interactive media at America Online, St. Martin's Press and Time-Life Books. She is a graduate of Wellesley College and lives in Arlington, VA.