Amy Beatie Joins Keep It Colorado as Executive Director

June 28, 2023 – DENVER – The nonprofit coalition Keep It Colorado has hired Amy Beatie to usher the organization through its next era of leadership in the private lands conservation sector. She will take on her new role August 1. Amy brings a wealth of experience to Keep It Colorado, with an in-depth background in nonprofit and government leadership, professional expertise in legal matters, and a personal passion for conservation.

Prior to joining Keep It Colorado, Amy was deputy attorney general for the Attorney General’s Office Natural Resources and Environment Section of the Colorado Department of Law, where she served for four years as the top natural resources and environmental lawyer for the State of Colorado, and was a member of Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser’s leadership team. Among other leadership roles there, Amy was a co-leader of the AG’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Council.  Her extensive background includes serving for 10 years as executive director of the Colorado Water Trust, where she brought an entrepreneurial style that enabled the nonprofit to grow its staff from one person to nine, and increase its budget 10-fold through creative fundraising pursuits.

Amy also taught a course on Western water transactions as an adjunct professor for the University of Denver Sturm College of Law, and over her career has served in attorney and clerk capacities for White & Jankowski, LLP; Porzak Browning & Bushong LLP; the Colorado Supreme Court; and the Wyoming Outdoor Council.

An avid supporter of initiatives that advance people and communities, Amy has served on the board of directors for Volunteers for Outdoor Colorado since 2018, and the board for LAW SCHOOL . . . Yes We Can since 2022. She has also held advisory council and board roles for organizations such as One World One Water Center for Urban Water Education and Stewardship, InvestHER, Colorado Water Congress and the University of Denver Water Law Review.

Amy earned a Juris Doctorate with an emphasis in environmental law from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law and a Bachelor of Arts in Religious Philosophy from Dartmouth College.

“We look forward to a new era for Keep It Colorado that will continue to build upon and evolve what we have accomplished together over the last four years,” said Suzanne Stephens, board chair of Keep It Colorado and executive director of Aspen Valley Land Trust. “We thank all of our members and partners for their trust and support as we navigated through this leadership transition these last few months.”

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