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Scott Grimes is serving in his first term on the board, joining in March 2023. Scott is the Vice President and Managing Director of Endangered Habitats Conservancy, a nonprofit California land trust focused on the conservation of wildlife habitat. The mission of Endangered Habitats Conservancy is to acquire, manage, monitor and maintain land in California for habitat protection and restoration, agricultural preservation, and other conservation purposes. In his capacity as Vice President, Scott manages the organization’s business, administrative, fiscal compliance, and legal activities. He also helps to advance large-scale habitat conservation and habitat restoration initiatives. Endangered Habitats Conservancy owns and manages more than 8,000 acres of conserved open space in the San Diego region. Over the past decade the Conservancy has secured over $80 million for land acquisitions to preserve San Diego’s remaining wildlands.

Scott Grimes serves as Chair of the Board of Directors of Ocean Discovery Institute, and is also a Board member of Dreams for Change (dreamsforchange.org) and a past Board member of the Conservation Biology Institute. Scott holds a Bachelor of Arts in East Asian Studies from UCLA and a Masters degree in public policy from the University of California San Diego. He is an enthusiastic supporter of connecting people to the outdoors, traveling without always having a map, and the San Francisco 49ers.