Amy Trainer

Amy Trainer brings nearly twenty years of conservation success as a strategic advocate, coalition builder and environmental policy expert. Amy currently serves as the Environmental Policy Director for the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community where she provides strategic policy advice to the Tribe’s elected Senate, and leads intergovernmental affairs for a variety of local, state, federal, tribal and international natural resources matters. A former practicing environmental and land use attorney in Kansas, Missouri and Washington, she moved to San Juan Island in 2005. As a staff attorney in Friday Harbor, she championed a new vessel regulation to protect the endangered Southern Resident Killer Whales. As a land trust executive director in south-central Colorado, she permanently protected over eleven hundred acres of mountain valley and senior water rights. As executive director of a California coastal advocacy organization, Amy led the national campaign that secured permanent protection of the West Coast’s only marine wilderness area, Drakes Estero in Point Reyes National Seashore. She is an appointed member of the Skagit Environmental Endowment Commission, is an appointed member of the San Juan County Conservation Land Bank, and also serves on the board of the Center for Rural Livelihoods. Amy loves hiking and trail running and exploring the wonders of the Salish Sea with her husband Fred Felleman.