Sara Morris-Marano

Sara brings tremendous excitement for outdoor access-focused nonprofits and relationship-building to the BCM team. She grew up in northwestern New Jersey and found her love of the outdoors while exploring the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area and the Appalachian Trail.

While pursuing a degree in Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources, she began working as a Biological Science Technician intern with the US Fish and Wildlife Service, hoping to focus on waterfowl conservation. After a class in environmental education during her last semester of undergrad fundamentally changed Sara’s trajectory, she spent the next six years leading adolescent and adult teams in trail maintenance and fire mitigation projects. An arduous and rewarding stint managing a lodging operation startup in southern New York with the Appalachian Mountain Club molded Sara into a force to be reckoned with in the large event management and fundraising spaces. In 2021, Sara joined the leadership team of a Front Range-based conservation corps program, working to support teams of young people as they grew their appreciation and relationship with the land.

Sara is immensely passionate about fostering equity and accessibility in outdoor spaces and draws on her cross-departmental experience in the nonprofit sector to turn goals into measurable outcomes. Outside of work, Sara enjoys hiking with her trail cat, backpacking in the Indian Peaks, learning about ethnobotanically-significant plants, crochet (her favorite winter sport!), and backyard farming.