Sarah Bates brings twenty years of experience in natural
resource policy and law to her position at Western Progress. Her academic
positions at the University of Colorado and the University of Montana
produced five books and a number of articles and reports on western water,
public resource management, and governance. Sarah has also worked as an
advocate for the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund and the Grand Canyon Trust,
and currently serves on the boards of Montana’s Clark Fork Coalition and the
Ruckelshaus Institute of Environment and Natural Resources at the University
of Wyoming. She is a graduate of Colorado State University and the
University of Colorado School of Law.