About Deanne Kloepfer
Communications Consultant (retired)
Deanne joined the ILI board in 2014. She is a former high school teacher (B.A.–History and English; M.A.–History and English) turned communications professional, who held research, communications, and management positions with local non-profit groups and the state public utilities commission in Idaho, a national environmental organization in Washington, DC, and a public water district in California.
She launched her own business in Washington, DC and, later, Vermont, as a communications consultant for several national environmental non-profit groups and government entities, including Smithsonian Institution’s Biological Diversity Program and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service.