The first year of La Jolla’s newly established Coastal Conservancy

Coming September 8th, Brenda Fake on "Our Coast, Our Community, Our First Year,"

The first year of La Jolla’s newly established Coastal Conservancy.  Brenda Fake is widely recognized for her leadership in local preservation, serving as the founder and Chair of the Friends of the Coast Walk Trail (established in 2011) and Chair of La Jolla Coastal Conservancy. In these roles, she has worked closely with the San Diego and La Jolla communities to spearhead environmental restoration, fix critical erosion, and improve safety along the historic Coast Walk Trail. 

The presentation, "Our Coast, Our Community, Our First Year," provides a Year One review of how the Conservancy was created and the results from the partnership with the City of San Diego to preserve, repair, and sustain La Jolla's iconic shoreline through community leadership and private philanthropy.  More than a project update, the presentation is about what happens when a community comes together around a shared purpose. In just one year, we've built an organization, established a strong funding pipeline, completed meaningful projects, and positioned the Conservancy to tackle some of the most significant coastal restoration efforts in La Jolla's history.   

Brenda’s career was as a professional change maker. A native of Minneapolis, she worked in Operations Management and Organization effectiveness.   As such she applied her skills in a diverse set of industries both public and private that include airline transportation, telecommunications, financial trading, engineering consulting, public works, and manufacturing from food to aerospace. She is a published author and has been a guest lecturer and graduate instructor in the School of Business in Strategic planning for Metropolitan University in Minneapolis.  She was awarded the OD practitioner of the year award by United Airlines.  Brenda holds a BA Degree in Communications from the University of Minnesota, an MBA from the University of St. Thomas and a certificate in Human System Dynamics from the HSD Institute.  Around 2010, she and her husband moved to La Jolla and to a home overlooking Coast Walk.  It would become the unofficial beginnings of her advocacy in coastal preservation and the  formation of the volunteer group known as Friends of Coast Walk trails.   

https://lajollacoastalconservancy.org/about-us/