Eleanor Huffines

Profile

Eleanor Huffines is a senior officer with Pew’s Arctic Ocean-U.S. project, which works to promote science- and community-based conservation of the Bering, Chukchi, and Beaufort seas. Huffines collaborates with communities, scientists, and government personnel to influence policy affecting the environment, subsistence cultures, and sustainable development.

Huffines has spent more than 20 years living and working in Alaska. Before joining Pew, she served as regional director for the Wilderness Society and conservation director for the National Outdoor Leadership School. She also spent 10 years as a guide with the school, leading people from around the world on paddling, hiking, and climbing expeditions throughout Alaska and the Arctic. Huffines has served on the Bureau of Land Management Resource Advisory Council, Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council, and Trustees for Alaska Public Interest Law Firm board of directors, among other bodies. She holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.