Mike Matz

Mike Matz is the director of the Campaign for America’s Wilderness at The Pew Charitable Trusts. As the director, Mike works to protect the nation’s remaining wild lands to ensure an enduring legacy of wilderness for future generations. Before joining Pew, he headed the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance in Salt Lake City, where he spearheaded the successful effort to establish the 1.9 million-acre Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument through presidential order. He spent six years with the Sierra Club, four of those as a director of its public lands program in Washington, D.C. For four years he was chairman of the Alaska Coalition, and he also worked as associate director of the Northern Alaska Environmental Center. Mike also helped found the Alaska Wilderness League and has served on their board. He holds a bachelor’s degree in history from Carleton College.