Board Member
Maya Batres (she/her) is the Senior Advisor for Climate Equity at The Nature Conservancy. She has over a decade of experience in climate and energy, including leading programs at ClimateWorks Foundation and The Nature Conservancy. Her background is in civil rights and the environment and she has authored several papers on environmental justice, is the recipient of an Upper Midwest Human Rights Fellowship, and is an AmeriCorps VISTA alumni. Maya earned her J.D. (Energy and Environmental Law) and her B.A. (Spanish Studies, African American Studies, Political Science) from the University of Minnesota. She spends most of her free time running and hiking in the mountains with her dog, and believes outside is for everybody. Maya is Guatemalan-American and speaks Spanish and English.