J.T. Horn is the Senior Director of the Trails Initiative at the Trust for Public Land (TPL) where he oversees TPL’s national portfolio of trail projects that transform communities to be healthier, more vibrant places to live, work and visit. These include major urban infrastructure projects with budgets in excess of $1 billion to community trails projects designed to help small towns tap into the recreation economy and advance rural prosperity.

Previously J.T. served as a Senior Project Manager with Trust for Public Land’s land protection team where he successfully closed some of the largest conservation projects in the United States. He regularly lectures on topics related to land conservation and outdoor recreation including presentations at Yale University, US Senate, National Park Service, California Trails and Greenways Conference, Conservation Finance Network, Land Trust Alliance, among others.

Prior to Trust for Public Land, he worked for 10 years at the Appalachian Trail Conservancy as New England Director overseeing 730 miles of the Appalachian National Scenic Trail between Connecticut and Maine. He started his career on seasonal trail crews and doing search and rescue and avalanche forecasting on Mount Washington in the White Mountains of New Hampshire.

J.T. is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of St. Lawrence University in Canton, NY with a degree in Philosophy. He holds a certificate in non-profit management from Antioch New England Graduate School.