Shona Ganguly (she/her/hers) – President
Shona Calzada Ganguly maneuvers through the terrain of environmental policy in southern California. She focuses on partnerships, outreach, urban conservation, climate, water, habitat connectivity, riparian restoration, coalition building, regional funding measures/campaigns, parks, and open space.
She works for The Nature Conservancy in California as an Associate Director of Southern California External Affairs, managing relationships with local, state, and federal legislators, officials, partner organizations, and supporting conservation programs in southern California.
Shona is a graduate of University of California, Berkeley (BA in Development Studies and South Asian Studies), Claremont Graduate University (MA in Cultural Studies), and the Peter Drucker and Masatoshi Ito School of Management (MBA).
She has worked with her family business, Pia Ka Ghar (www.piakaghar.com), in Indian designer clothing accessories since 2003, primarily because of the vision of inclusive growth in Bengal, women’s empowerment, and international development. Her focus has been on supply chain management, strategic growth/planning, brand management, sales/marketing, and communications.
She is an avid international traveler, dog lover (especially her two Husky-Malamute-Shepherds and her mom’s rescue dachshunds), language learner (Bengali, Italian, Spanish, and French), foodie/cooking junkie, addicted to yoga, leisurely hiker, and has been dancing (mostly ballet) since she was 4 years old. She currently lives in Shadow Hills (a neighborhood of Los Angeles) with her son, husband, and two dogs.