2024 Kingsbury Browne Conservation Leadership Award: Mavis Gragg

The Land Trust Alliance and the Open Space Institute are pleased to announce that attorney and conservationist Mavis Gragg has been presented with the distinguished Kingsbury Browne Conservation Leadership Award at the Alliance’s annual national land conservation conference, held this year in Providence, Rhode Island.
Mavis is co-founder of HeirShares, an organization that delivers comprehensive educational content, data, and technology to empower heirs' property landowners and attorneys dealing with heirs’ property issues. She is also a founding member of the Conservationists of Color, an affinity group creating space for practitioners of color within the land conservation movement to connect. Mavis is also a member of the Land Trust Alliance’s Conservation Defense Advisory Council and served on its Common Ground Advisory Council, which laid the groundwork for the Alliance’s community-centered conservation program.
The Kingsbury Browne Award is presented annually at Rally: The National Land Conservation Conference and honors those who have enriched the conservation community through their outstanding leadership, innovation, and creativity in land conservation. Named for Kingsbury Browne, the conservationist who inspired the Alliance’s founding in 1982, the award ranks among the organization’s highest honors. Gragg will serve as the Kingsbury Browne distinguished practitioner for the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy in Cambridge, Mass., for 2024-2025.