Jenny Springer

About Jenny Springer

Strategic and results-focused senior professional, dedicated to advancing rights-based approaches to conservation and climate action, Indigenous and community land rights, and community-led conservation. Extensive experience with: producing policy-relevant analytical work that builds the evidence base for recognition of community land rights and rights-based approaches; designing initiatives and securing funds for community-led conservation; shaping the policies and programs of international organizations; leading and contributing to collaborations among diverse partners. Broad global knowledge and experience, and a record of effective work with diverse stakeholders from community to global policy levels.

Experience

1. Rri Fellow

   Rights And Resources Initiative

   Jan 2024 — Present · Washington, DC, US

   Contribute to fulfilling RRI\'s mission to secure the land and resource rights of Indigenous Peoples, Afro-descendent Peoples, and local communities by contributing to RRI’s strategy, providing consulting and advisory services, and participating in relevant RRI programs and projects.

Education

• University of Chicago

  Master’s Degree, Socio-cultural Anthropology

  1989 — 1991

• Harvard University

  Bachelor’s Degree, Social Studies

  1980 — 1984

Skills

• Corporate Social Responsibility
• Community Based Natural Resource Management
• Indigenous Rights
• Community Forestry
• Ecosystem Services
• Land Tenure
• Capacity Building
• Human Rights
• Traditional Knowledge
• Natural Resource Management
• Environmental Policy
• Conservation Issues
• Policy Analysis
• Rural Development
• Nonprofits
• Non-Governmental Organizations (Ngos)
• Climate Change
• Sustainability
• Redd
• Ngos
• Sustainable Development
• Social Safeguards
• International Development
• Biodiversity