About Jora Fogg

Jora Fogg (she/her) joined CLF in 2022 as California’s Associate Program Director. Jora has nearly two decades of experience working for small conservation non-profits in both the scientific and policy spaces. Most recently, she spent eight years as Policy Director with FGN member Friends of the Inyo. She also serves as a County Planning Commissioner and on the board of the Sierra Nevada Bighorn Sheep Foundation.

Jora is originally from the Pacific Northwest and holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree from the Evergreen State College with a focus in Ornithology. Jora lives and works in the Eastern Sierra where she spends her free time outdoors, enjoying birding, skiing, hiking, and cycling.

Jora Fogg



California Associate Program Director

“All lands are ancestral lands. I live and work in June Lake, California, the unceded and ancestral lands of the Numu people (northern Paiute) and specifically the Mono Lake Kootzaduka’a who still steward these lands today.”

— Jora Fogg, California Associate Program Director.