Haley leads work within the WRI US team and with teams across WRI to advance climate-informed land use in the US. This portfolio of work includes nature-based climate mitigation, nature-based carbon removal, and responsible biomass use in the US. Haley evaluates opportunities for multi-sectoral interventions to reduce conversion pressure on natural and working lands, increase carbon storage in landscapes, enable restoration, and provide equitable environmental services to communities. Haley manages WRI’s research and policy work on biomass utilization, biomass carbon removal, biofuels, and climate-friendly land use in the US at the federal, state, and regional levels.

Haley holds a Masters of Environmental Management from the Yale School of the Environment with a focus on environmental policy, environmental justice, and land use in the US West; and a BA in Environmental Anthropology from Colorado College. While at Yale, Haley worked for the Ucross High Plains Stewardship Initiative and assisted Bridger-Teton National Forest and other partners with land use planning and stakeholder engagement. Previously she worked as an environmental science educator for NatureBridge in Yosemite National Park and has guided educational wilderness trips in Alaska, California, Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana. Haley has also worked to build coalitions to support soil-friendly ranching practices with the Quivira Coalition in New Mexico and conducted post-fire restoration and public lands maintenance with the Rocky Mountain Field Institute in Colorado.

Haley lives in California with her partner and two cats. Outside of work, Haley loves to backpack, SCUBA dive, water color, and felt.