Lisa Byers

Lisa Byers has been the Executive Director of OPAL Community Land Trust since January 1996. She was a co-founder of the Northwest Community Land Trust Coalition and the National Community Land Trust (CLT) Network, serving as founding President of the Network’s board. A throughline of her work—first in historic preservation, then land conservation and ultimately community land trusts—has been to help people live on the land in a manner that assures access for future generations. She and her wife live in a community land trust home where, among other things, they enjoy visits from their children and grandchildren.

Lisa interviewed Susan Witt for Reweaving the Tapestry of Tenure: Eight Elders of the CLT Movement Championing Community Ownership of Land  in 2022.