Tricia Aspinwall

Tricia is a passionate conservation professional and Collingswood Farmers Market volunteer leader. She is a lifelong New Jersey resident and has lived in Collingswood since 2011. She decided to raise her family in Collingswood for its walkable downtown, transit access, and great parks. Tricia has served as the volunteer leader for the Friends of the Farmers Market for the last ten seasons and is a member of the Collingswood Green Team. Tricia also serves on the State Outdoor Recreation Advisory Committee.

Tricia has worked in conservation in New Jersey her entire career from County government to Federal government, from small nonprofit land trust to now a global nonprofit. Throughout her career she has worked with local partners in every part of the state to write conservation planning documents and with many landowners to help them permanently protect their land. She is passionate about our parks here in New Jersey and spends as much time in them as she can as an avid trail runner and a mom raising two daughters to respect nature.

Tricia currently works for The Nature Conservancy, leading the NJ chapter’s land protection program targeting the preservation of lands in New Jersey’s iconic landscapes. In addition to managing the land preservation program, Tricia is the project manager for the New Jersey Conservation Blueprint, helping to direct a statewide planning program to prioritize the most vital land left for preservation to provide equitable access to green spaces, protect critical wildlife habitat, preserve the most important climate resilient lands, and increase recreation opportunities for all. Tricia’s conservation work is solidly based in TNC’s climate resiliency science, prioritizing those lands that have the ability to sustain biodiversity despite a changing climate, proactively planning for space for species to move and adapt to climate change. Tricia collaborates with partners throughout the state to advance our preservation goals. Finally, because our state is the most diverse in the nation and conservation work should reflect that, Tricia also works on TNC’s Equitable Conservation Framework, a plan to implement our conservation strategies in a way that will lead to more equitable outcomes.

Tricia earned a Master of Arts in Environmental Management from Montclair State and a Bachelor of Science in Public Health with an Economics Minor from Rutgers University. Tricia’s daughters also report she is an awesome mother, which she says “really is the best line in a bio I could ask for.”