Tia Nelson

Tia Nelson (Madison, Wisconsin) is managing director of the Outrider Foundation’s Climate Change Program. Previously, she served as director of the Climate Change Initiative at The Nature Conservancy and received the Environmental Protection Agency’s Climate Protection Award in 2000.

Nelson is a graduate of UW–Madison, a conservationist and an environmental education advocate. She is the daughter of the late Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin.

In summer 2015, to thank her for her years of dedicated service to and on behalf of the Nelson Institute, she was awarded the title of board member emeritus by Nelson Institute Dean Paul Robbins. She is the fourth person to hold this honorific title.