I’d like to personally welcome CPC’s new board chair, Lynde B. Uihlein, from Milwaukee, WI. She is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where she earned an MSW in social welfare. In 1990, she established the Brico Fund LLC. The Brico Fund actively and sustainably improves the civic, cultural, and natural environments by building the collective capacity of people and organizations through dynamic approaches. Lynde is actively engaged in conservation, including the restoration of a native landscape on 150 acres of Lake Michigan shoreline in Wisconsin. Lynde brings to CPC her extensive board experience including serving on the national board for the League of Conservation Voters.

Lynde has been a CPC trustee since 2015 and has served on various committees including the Executive Committee, as well as serving as First Vice Chair until her election as Chair this past September. Lynde succeeds our outgoing board chair, Dr. Peter Raven.

It is a pleasure to be working with such an engaged and thoughtful person, one who is dedicated to our efforts to Save Plants. I wish Lynde all the best in her new role with CPC. Onward!

PHOTO: President and CEO John Clark with new board Chair Lynde B. Uihlein. Photo by Joyce Maschinski, Center for Plant Conservation.