Welcome, Stacy!

Stacy Schaefer is the new executive director of the Resilience Authority of Charles County, which has partnered with UMCES and Maryland Department of Natural Resources Chesapeake and Coastal Service. Stacy Schaefer holds a bachelor's degree in business, and a Juris Doctorate degree from the George Washington University National Law Center. After ten years of practicing law in Washington, D.C., Ms. Schaefer transitioned to a career as the Associate Director for Land Conservation with the Maryland Department of Natural Resources from 2009 to 2021. Most recently, Ms. Schaefer served as the Maryland Land Conservation Liaison for Resource Environmental Solutions (RES), an ecological restoration firm that works across the country. She is also a current Board member of the City of Annapolis and Anne Arundel County Resilience Authority and a lead team member of The Nature Conservancy’s Coastal Resiliency Framework project.

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