Anna Wearn

Anna Wearn works with stakeholders and decision-makers in the Intermountain West to conserve key wildlife migration routes, rivers, and public lands for Pew’s U.S. conservation project. Currently, she is advancing conservation campaigns in Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, and Colorado.

Before joining Pew, Wearn spent over a decade working on conservation policy for the federal government and for nongovernmental organizations. Most recently, she served as a policy adviser for the U.S. Department of the Interior, overseeing implementation of wildlife migration and large landscape conservation policies. Wearn also recently worked as director of government affairs for the Center for Large Landscape Conservation on state and federal habitat connectivity policy. Previously, she worked for the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources, the National Forest Foundation, and the Natural Resources Defense Council, among other organizations. Wearn has also served on the boards of a regional land trust and a local parks and recreation department.  

Wearn holds bachelor’s degrees in environmental geography and Spanish from Dartmouth College and a Master of Science and a graduate certificate in natural resource conflict resolution from the University of Montana. She is based in Bozeman, Montana.