Jeannette Tuitele-Lewis

Board Member, the Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation

Jeannette Tuitele-Lewis is the President/CEO of Big Sur Land Trust, a position she has served since 2014. Prior to her work with Big Sur Land Trust, Jeannette worked in the American Samoan Islands documenting plants used by traditional women healers and received her master’s degree in forest science from Oregon State University. She is also currently the board chairwoman of the California Council of Land Trusts and serves on several advisory committees that intersect her interests of protecting the environment, supporting women in leadership and other social justice issues.