Laurie O’Reilly is CLF’s Chief Content Officer. In this role, she is responsible for managing CLF’s content strategy, sharing the stories of our advocacy work and the people and communities impacted by it through CLF’s website, social media channels, email, print newsletter, and much more.
Laurie brings more than a decade of marketing and communications experience to CLF, including for two of New England’s leading conservation nonprofits: the Appalachian Mountain Club and The Trustees of Reservations. At AMC, she managed marketing for AMC’s publishing, lodging, ecommerce, and education programs. As Marketing and Membership Director at The Trustees, she oversaw the organization’s brand identity, marketing, communications, and outreach efforts and supported significant fundraising work.
Laurie grew up on the coast of Maine and gets out to hike and bike whenever she can.
Recent Posts
Jul 7 2023
Imagine the kind of summer day we New Englanders wait for all year – a light breeze, an azure sky, temps in the low 80s, and, best of all, low humidity. Coolers are stuffed with snacks and sandwiches, beach chairs stacked in trunks, and kids corralled into waiting cars for the traffic-jammed ride to their…
Dec 29 2022
Visit Lake Champlain at the height of summer next year and among the many boaters navigating its scenic waters, you’ll find Julie Silverman, CLF’s Lake Champlain Lakekeeper. She’ll be easy to spot as she monitors the lake’s waters in the Lakekeeper boat, a vessel dedicated to patrolling this extraordinary natural resource. As CLF’s seventh Lake…
Dec 29 2022
What are your top priorities for CLF’s work in Connecticut? My passion is climate and energy work, so I’m really excited about the influence we can have on Connecticut’s climate and energy policies. Connecticut is among the states heading in the right direction for cutting its climate-damaging emissions. But we’re not on track right now…
Dec 7 2022
Update, December 2022: In 2021, a permit needed to build the Palmer biomass plant was revoked by state officials. Palmer appealed that decision in an effort to have it overturned. Last month, Palmer lost that appeal. We’re revisiting our 2021 conversation with Tanisha Arena, executive director of Arise for Social Justice, about why this fight…
Oct 30 2022
Clean water is a fundamental human right. But 50 years ago, the nation’s rivers, lakes, and streams were anything but clean. The waterways that had powered the country’s economic growth for a century had become dirty dumping grounds for chemical waste, industrial pollution, and raw sewage. When Congress passed the Clean Water Act in 1972,…
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