Ted O. Harrison is the founder and president of Commonweal Conservancy, a nonprofit conservation-based community development organization located in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Since 2003, Commonweal has championed a 13,000-acre conservation initiative that will ensure permanent protection for more than 12,500 acres of an internationally acclaimed cultural landscape, known as the Galisteo Basin. In combination with public and philanthropic funding, Commonweal is financing the acquisition and restoration of the Galisteo Basin Preserve through the development of 300-acre, $750 million mixed-income/mixed use community, known as Trenza. Commonweal’s work has been showcased by the Urban Land Institute and the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. as a “path-setting conservation development of national significance.”Prior to founding Commonweal, Mr. Harrison served as a senior vice president and national programs director with the Trust for Public Land (TPL) in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Mr. Harrison’s 17-year career with TPL included a diverse array of project management, organizational leadership, and national program development responsibilities. Ted holds bachelors degrees in political science and anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley and a master’s degree in city and regional planning from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 2003, Ted fulfilled the requirements of Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design advanced management development program.Ted may be reached at his office in Santa Fe: Commonweal Conservancy, 117 N. Guadalupe Street, Suite C, 505.982.0071 ext 102, and by email at: ted.harrison@commonwealconservancy.org.Specialties: Nonprofit leadership, program development, land conservation planning, conservation real estate, land acquisition, transactional modeling, real estate negotiation, and nonprofit finance