Christy Plumer

Christy Plumer is the founder and principal of Eventide Strategies and a veteran conservation policy leader with more than 25 years of experience in Washington, DC. Since 1999, she has worked at the intersection of conservation, outdoor recreation, and sportsmen and women’s priorities to advance bipartisan funding and policy solutions grounded in consensus-based approaches and durability.

Christy spent a decade in the U.S. Senate, serving moderate Republican members as an Environment/Energy Legislative Assistant and leading the Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, and Water as Staff Director. She later held senior policy and government relations roles at The Nature Conservancy, The Conservation Fund, and SolarCity, and from 2016–2024 served as Chief Conservation Officer at the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership.

She specializes in strategic planning, coalition-building, conservation finance, foundation engagement, and federal advocacy. Christy holds degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and Brown University and spends her free time hiking, kayaking, and fly fishing in the landscapes and watersheds she works to conserve.