Lori Hidinger has spent her career building linkages between science, policy and management. As the Director of Fiscal and Business Operations for the College of Global Futures, and previously at the School for the Future of Innovation in Society, she creates partnerships, leads programs, and strategically manages the School's human, physical, and financial resources. Previously as CSPO’s Managing Director, she was responsible for overseeing operations and implementing the strategic vision for CSPO’s research, education, and outreach activities, as well as contributing to CSPO projects on climate change, ecological research agendas, and biodiversity. As a member of the Steering Committee for the Sustainable Rangelands Roundtable, she is working with range scientists and managers, as well as livestock producers and environmentalists, to develop and implement criteria and indicators of rangeland sustainability, and focuses on rangeland ecosystem goods and services, climate change, and food security. From 2009 to 2017, Lori served as the Editor-in-Chief of Rangelands, the membership journal of the Society for Range Management. At the Ecological Society of America, she managed projects to integrate ecological science and environmental decision making and build partnerships between ecologists and natural resource managers. Lori received her Bachelor’s of Science in Zoology from the University of Maryland and her Master of Environmental Management from Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment.