Stephanie Sklar

Sonoran Institute names CEO

The Sonoran Institute Board of Directors has appointed Stephanie Sklar of Tucson as its new chief executive officer, effective Oct. 13.

Sklar is currently director of development for the Institute of the Environment at the University of Arizona, since 2010. Before working for the UA, she was executive director of Social Venture Partners of Greater Tucson from 2007-2010.

Sklar was formerly executive director of the Arizona League of Conservation Voters; and before that, vice president for public affairs for the National Wildlife Federation in Washington, D.C.; vice president for communications at The Nature Conservancy in Arlington, Virginia; and an appointee of President Ronald Reagan as communications director for the President’s Commission on Americans Outdoors. She also was an associate director of the Small Business Center for the Chamber of Commerce of the United States.

A graduate of Vassar College, Sklar earned a degree in English from Brown University and studied postgraduate business at George Washington University.

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