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Ted Clement has been the executive director of Save Mount Diablo (SMD) since November 2015. Clement was born in Massachusetts in 1969 and grew up in rural Vermont. He attended the University of Vermont from 1987 to 1991 and majored in environmental studies, later attending Vermont Law School from 1996 to 1999. His career in land conservation includes time with the Peace Corps in Thailand's Ramkhamhaeng National Park, Aquidneck Land Trust, and Hawaiian Islands Land Trust. He and his family moved to the Bay Area in 2015 when he accepted the position with SMD. Clement has overseen SMD's growth and an expanded mission, as well as managed the organization through the COVID-19 pandemic. In this interview, Clement discusses growing up in Vermont, including early experiences in nature; his education at the University of Vermont, including joining the Outing Club and curriculum about climate change; working for the Hurricane Island Outward Bound School; his Peace Corps assignment in in Ramkhamhaeng National Park in Thailand, including tensions between park rangers and local residents, and establishing an environmental education program with schools; meeting his wife, Boonsuay, and interacting with the Karen hill tribe; attending Vermont Law School, including working for the Vermont Land Trust and learning land conservation law; working for Aquidneck Land Trust, including his approach to leadership and teamwork, as well as acquiring land trust accreditation; joining SMD, including his decision to apply, his first impressions of the East Bay, implementing a new strategic plan system, SMD's finances and the Forever Wild Capital Campaign, longtime staff member Seth Adams, education and outreach like the Conservation Collaboration Agreement Plan and Mangini Ranch Educational Preserve, partnerships, SMD's expanded mission and Climate Action Plan, conservation easements, and SMD's COVID-19 response; reflections on SMD's land conservation work; reflections on his family and the SMD team.

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