November 15, 2022: The Western New York Land Conservancy has named Jon Kaledin as its new Executive Director, effective January 9, 2023. He will succeed longtime Executive Director Nancy Smith. 

Kaledin is an accomplished leader in the conservation and environment field. He has held executive positions in the private, government, and non-profit sectors—including 15 years as New York General Counsel at The Nature Conservancy’s New York State office in Albany. His substantive areas of expertise are land conservation, water, environmental policy, climate change, and clean energy. He brings to the Land Conservancy an extensive background in advocacy, policy, land protection, land stewardship, fundraising, board development and relations, and public communications work. He holds a B.A. from Harvard University and a J.D. from New York University School of Law, where he was President of the Environmental Law Society.