Ever wondered how you can do more for public lands but you aren’t sure where to start? Outdoor Alliance’s Outdoor Allies series explores how other outdoor adventurers got their start in advocacy work and their advice for how you can harness your passion for the outdoors into advocacy for the land and water you love. Annie Nyborg is Director of Sustainability for Peak Design and has been involved in advocacy work for about four years. She lives in Ojai, California.

Ever wondered how you can do more for public lands but you aren’t sure where to start? Outdoor Alliance’s Outdoor Allies series explores how other outdoor adventurers got their start in advocacy work and their advice for how you can harness your passion for the outdoors into advocacy for the land and water you love. Maria Povec is a Mainer back in her natural habitat, and a long-time advocate diving into state government as a Senior Policy Analyst in the Maine Governor’s Policy and Planning Office, called the “Office of Innovation and the Future.”