Deputy Director, National Institute for Civil Discourse
Bonnie LePard is the Deputy Director of the National Institute for Civil Discourse. She has spent her career working to find common ground and solutions to serve the common good. Before joining NICD, Bonnie has been the executive director of four nonprofit organizations. She saved the land that is now owned by the Tregaron Conservancy, an organization that she founded in 2006. Most recently, Bonnie ran a 400-acre National Trust for Historic Preservation site in northern Virginia and later was the executive director of The Cultural Landscape Foundation. Bonnie earned her B.A in English from Wesleyan University and her J.D. from New York University School of Law (with an emphasis in environmental law). She clerked for two federal judges and served in the Honors Program at the U.S. Department of Justice as a trial attorney in the Environmental Crimes Section. Bonnie prosecuted over 20 federal trials and worked on the Exxon Valdez case.