About Mikkol Richins

Mikkol Richins (she/her) is the Conservation Lands Foundation's Executive Coordinator. Born, raised, and residing in Ogden, Utah, Mikkol is grateful for the beauty and recreation opportunities, along with the grounding and healing abilities, her local Wasatch Mountains offer. Feeling she has the duty to protect the lands she and her community rely on to find solace is what called her to join the fight at CLF.

Graduating from her local university, Weber State, in Outdoor Recreation Administration she found her passion for supporting nonprofit leaders and organizations whose missions aligned with her values and passions.

She started her nonprofit career at the Ogden Downtown Alliance, a nonprofit whose mission and her work focused on community building through events. She ran the local year-round farmers market, supporting over 200 vendors, including farmers, producers, artisans, and food trucks. She also sat on committees working to combat food insecurity in her community.

Mikkol has three years of experience in the environmental conservation field and comes to CLF from Sierra Club where she was the Program and Operations Coordinator for the club’s Conservation & Outdoors campaign. She supported the campaign's Chief Officer and her colleagues in their lands, water, and wildlife conservation and outdoors for all work. 

Mikkol is obsessed with sustainable dark chocolate, local honey, black coffee, and spending time doing “all the things” the outdoors has to offer with her husband and two Goldendoodles. 

“All lands are ancestral lands. I live in Ogden, Utah, the unceded ancestral lands of the unceded ancestral lands of the Newe Sogobia (Eastern Shoshone) and Núu-agha-tʉvʉ-pʉ̱ (Ute) people. I hope this land acknowledgment inspires others to stand in solidarity with Native nations.”

— Mikkol Richins, Executive Coordinator