Amy Trainer brings thirty years of conservation success as a strategic advocate, coalition builder and environmental policy expert to her work as the Director of Environmental Policy for the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community. In this role since 2019, she provides policy advice to the Tribe’s elected Senate, and leads intergovernmental affairs for a variety of local, state, federal, tribal and transboundary natural resources matters. A former practicing environmental and land use attorney in Kansas, Missouri and Washington, she moved to San Juan Island in 2005. As a staff attorney in Friday Harbor, she championed a new vessel regulation to protect the endangered Southern Resident Killer Whales. As a land trust executive director in south-central Colorado, she permanently protected over eleven hundred acres of mountain valley and senior water rights. As executive director of a California coastal advocacy organization, Amy led the national campaign that secured permanent protection for the West Coast’s only marine wilderness area, Drakes Estero in Point Reyes National Seashore. She is an appointed commissioner of the San Juan County Conservation Land Bank, and also serves on the board of the Center for Rural Livelihoods.