Ann Livingston, Executive Director
Ann Livingston joined the Peninsula Trails Coalition as the organization’s first Executive Director in October of 2025.
Ann has consistently taken an entrepreneurial approach to developing and implementing leading edge solutions to sustainability issues facing communities, regions, and states since earning both a Juris Doctorate and an Interdisciplinary Graduate Certificate in Environment, Policy and Society from the University of Colorado in 2000. She has served as the Land Use Attorney for Environment Colorado; Director, Center for Communities by Design at the AIA National Chapter; Boulder County Sustainability Coordinator; Program Manager for State and Local Engagement at the Southwest Energy Efficiency Project (SWEEP), Principal Planner in Sustainability for Fort Lauderdale; Climate Advisor for the City of St. Petersburg, FL; and as the Senior Executive and Director of Programs and then the Interim Executive Director of the Southeast Sustainability Direcotrs Network (SSDN) prior to joining the PTC.
For 26 years, Ann has worked collaboratively with multiple levels of government, utilities, the private sector (including technology firms, trade allies, and financial institutions), advocacy groups, Federal Laboratories, the US Department of Energy, and state agencies among others. She has served on the City of Boulder and Xcel Energy Task Force (focused on municipalization and alternative partnership options), as President and Executive Director of the Colorado Green Building Guild, as Vice-President of the Environment Colorado Research and Policy Center Board of Directors, and on numerous other advisory boards and work groups. Ann was named as a Person of the Year by the Boulder Weekly (2009), Sustainability Champion (Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, 2010), and Forty Under Forty by the Boulder County Business Report (2010).
Ann is a 5th generation native Floridian—her love of nature and being immersed in the outdoors inspired her to pursue a career in sustainability and remains a source of motivation today. She’s excited to explore the mountains, rivers, bays, and ocean of the Olympic Peninsula.
