Christy Plumer

Christy Plumer is the principal and founder of Eventide Strategies and has been engaged in Washington, DC conservation and energy policy since 1999. She has built her career around working with partners in the conservation, outdoor recreation, and sportsmen/women’s sectors to identify common ground and reach consensus on bipartisan conservation funding and policy solutions. After spending a decade in the U.S. Senate as an Environment and Energy Legislative Assistant for moderate Republican members of Congress including Senator John Chafee (RI) and Senator Bob Smith (NH), and Staff Director of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee’s Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, and Water for Senator Lincoln Chafee (RI), Christy shifted to advancing federal conservation policy at The Nature Conservancy as Senior Policy Advisor for Fish and Wildlife and Director of Federal Land Programs. She also served as Director of Government Relations for The Conservation Fund and Northeast Campaigns Director for SolarCity. From 2016-2024, Christy led federal policy and strategic development for the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership as their Chief Conservation Officer. She holds a B.A. in Biology and Environmental Studies from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.A. in Environmental Studies from Brown University.

Christy specializes in strategic planning, coalition-building, bipartisan policy advancement, conservation funding, foundation relations, and policy advocacy. In her free time, she hikes, kayaks, and heads out fly fishing with family and friends in the landscapes and watersheds she works to restore and conserve.