“The biodiversity crisis is every bit as dire as the climate crisis, and sacrificing biodiversity in the name of climate change makes no scientific or moral sense”
- Name: Kelly Fuller
- Born: 1962
- From: Anaheim, California
- Pronouns: she/her
- Contribution/Impact: 78 mile walk across California desert to promote protection of public lands threatened by a transmission line project, walking 8 miles a day.
- Occupation: Most recently was Executive Director of Gila Watershed Partnership of Arizona, and worked for the American bird conservatory.
- Interesting Facts: Likes to spend as much time as possible outdoors in the west to absorb nature. She loves the desert, saying that ‘the sky is so clear at night and the stars just glow there.
Kelly Fuller is the Energy and Mining Director of the Western Watershed Project, which is a nonprofit environmental conservation group that works to protect and restore western watersheds and wildlife. They do this through education, public policy, and legal advocacy. Campaigns focus on the impacts of energy and mining, but has also run campaigns to preserve public lands and to mitigate greenhouse gases. She has an article published by the Center for Biological Diversity’s about being an LGBTQ environmentalist growing up in rural America.
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