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Will Hackman
Will is a Conservation Advocacy Expert and Climate Advocate, Campaign Advocacy Professional, Global Environmental Issue Advocate.
During the 2010 and 2012 election cycles, Will served as a political fundraiser and campaign manager on four federal races for the U.S. House and Senate as well as a gubernatorial campaign. In 2013, he joined the public sector conservation community as a marine fisheries conservation advocate.
Will first developed a love for the ocean as a commercial Alaskan salmon fisherman during the summers while in college. He later completed a season commercially fishing for Alaskan Bering Sea crab — one of the most dangerous jobs in the world. Since 2013, Will has served as a senior strategist building advocacy campaigns and advancing public policies related to ocean and land conservation as well as clean energy and the environment.
Will spent years defending Alaska’s Tongass National Forest from industrial logging – the U.S.’s largest national forest and one of the world’s largest temperate rainforests; worked with local and indigenous communities across the western U.S. on public land and river conservation efforts; helped strengthen fuel-efficiency regulations for cars and trucks; helped pass major bipartisan legislation to combat illegal pirate fishing, and has engaged in international marine fisheries conservation efforts around the world.
Will also attended four United Nations climate change conferences and is a contributing author on energy, environmental, and climate change topics for print and online media. Will is a frequent climate policy expert voice online and in the media and has been interviewed on several climate change-related podcasts, and filmed a TEDx in 2022 on stage in DC challenging us to reframe our climate conversations.
More details about his work may be found on his website.
Will graduated from Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois in 2007 with a Bachelor’s degree in International Studies and received his Master’s in Public Policy from Georgetown University’s McCourt School in 2018. His graduate thesis was on the role of U.S. federal tax credits in stimulating growth in domestic solar installations. Will lives in the Washington, DC region and enjoys leading weekend trips for an outdoor adventure guiding organization he founded.
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