Benji Backer is the Founder and CEO of Nature Is Nonpartisan, a movement redefining the environment as a nonpartisan issue once and for all. He’s also the founder of the American Conservation Coalition (ACC), which he launched during his freshman year of college. A best-selling author of The Conservative Environmentalist: Common Sense Solutions for a Sustainable Future, Benji has been named a NYTimes Changemaker, and awarded the TIME 100: Climate, Fortune 40 Under 40, Forbes 30 Under 30, GreenBiz 30 Under 30, and Grist 50.

Benji is a member of multiple boards and commissions, including the Brookings-AEI Commission on Rural Prosperity, and is known as one of the leading voices on conservation issues in the country.

Above all, Backer is an avid outdoorsman who spends most of his free time in the mountains out West. Originally from Wisconsin, he's also a proud graduate of the University of Washington and currently resides in Scottsdale, Arizona.