Windsor, Conn., April 5, 2013—American Farmland Trust is delighted to welcome Lisa Bassani as Project Director for the Working Lands Alliance, a diverse coalition of farmers, conservationists, anti-hunger and healthy food advocates working to sustain local farms and stop the loss of Connecticut farmland. The Windsor-based Alliance is a project of American Farmland Trust.

Bassani brings an extensive background in land conservation to the Working Lands Alliance. As project manager for the Connecticut office of Trust for Public Land, she successfully completed many large-scale land conservation projects. She also served as point person for the restoration of sensitive barrier beach habitat on Long Beach in Stratford, a project which received the prestigious Coastal America Award from the Department of the Interior in 2012.

Most recently, Bassani served as program manager for the Tropical Resources Institute within the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, where she developed graduate-level educational initiatives focusing on conservation issues in the tropics, forged partnerships with institutions interested in collaborating with students, and coordinated the faculty steering committee.

Bassani holds a Masters of Environmental Science degree from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Sciences, and a BA in Spanish from the University of Michigan. She can be reached at 860-683-4230 or at lbassani@farmland.org.

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