Marisa Riggi '09 (Photo provided)
Despite Buffalo being a major city in Upstate New York, the Western New York Land Conservancy has protected 8,000 acres of private land in its eight surrounding counties. They will remain forever wild or continue to serve as farmland.
Marisa Riggi ’09 heads those protection efforts as the nonprofit organization’s executive director.
“It’s an amazing feeling to be part of land conservation,” says Riggi. “People can go and see and experience what we’ve protected, every day.”