Cameron Jaggard

PROFILE

Cameron Jaggard works to protect biodiversity, advance habitat connectivity, and improve adaptation and resilience of ecosystems and human communities in the United States’ Southeast coastal states. Jaggard leads Pew’s river reconnection and restoration efforts and supports coastal habitat resilience planning in Florida. As a member of the South Atlantic Salt Marsh Initiative leadership team, he advances state and federal efforts to conserve 1 million acres of salt marsh stretching from North Carolina to east central Florida. Jaggard previously led Pew’s efforts to protect the largest seagrass meadow in the Gulf of Mexico, known officially in the U.S. as the Gulf of America, and to advance ecosystem-based fishery management in the Atlantic and Gulf coast states.

Before joining Pew, Jaggard focused on protecting and restoring marine species in California and was an environmental consultant responsible for natural resource permitting, wildlife relocations, and habitat monitoring projects in some of Florida’s east coast counties.

Jaggard holds a bachelor’s degree in environmental policy from Rollins College. He is based in North Palm Beach, Florida, where he enjoys paddling local waterways and hiking with his family.