Susan Daggett
Executive Director, Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute

Susan D. Daggett is the Executive Director of the Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute, which seeks to elevate the law, policy and practice of sustainable development in the West to promote nature-friendly, prosperous and equitable communities.   She also is a member of the faculty at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law, where she is an Associate Professor of the Practice and teaches in the area of land use and sustainability.    She previously served as Managing Attorney in the Rocky Mountain office of Earthjustice, a national non-profit public interest law firm (formerly the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund) and also worked as an independent consultant to non-profit organizations engaged in energy-related advocacy.    She is a founding member of the Metropolitan Denver Nature Alliance, and she also serves on the Boards of Smart Growth America, Transportation Solutions, Colorado History Day, and the Denver School of the Arts Friends Foundation.   She previously served as Trustee for the Colorado Chapter of the Nature Conservancy, as Commissioner of Denver Water and as a founding Board member of Greenprint Denver.   She graduated from Mount Holyoke College and received her law degree from Yale University.   She is married to Michael Bennet and has three daughters.