Stuart Clarke

As Program Director of the Watershed Protection team, Stuart’s work focuses on creating the conditions for a healthy Delaware River watershed. He oversees a $30 million annual grant portfolio, which includes investments in research, data gathering, and advocacy focusing on priority stressors across the watershed; targeted land protection and restoration; and efforts to broaden equitable public access to and engagement with the basin’s rivers and streams.

Before his time at the Foundation, Stuart served as Vice President of Strategic Initiatives at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Studies. Prior to that, he served for 15 years as the Executive Director of the privately endowed Town Creek Foundation, which supported environmental advocacy work in the Maryland and the Chesapeake Bay. His experience includes national environmental grantmaking at the Turner Foundation and serving as Executive Director of Outward Bound Atlanta.

Stuart is a graduate of Lafayette College and undertook PhD studies at Yale University.