Sara Jansen - Chair
Sara has spent forty plus years working for communities through non-profit and public sector jobs. For twenty years with the Alaska State Fair she learned how a dedicated team could achieve an overall goal while sustaining the singular visions of a myriad of participants. Using that nonprofit foundation, she ran for and was elected to two terms on the Matanuska-Susitna Borough Assembly, serving as Deputy Mayor during her second term. Working for the City of Palmer she served as the Community Development Coordinator, Special Assistant to the City Manager, and Deputy City Manager. Her professional career concluded at the Matanuska-Susinta Borough as a Long Range Planner, and the Chief of Planning Services. Her appreciation of Great Land Trust’s approach of working with willing sellers to preserve land led her to become a more active participant in their projects, leading to appointment to the Board of Directors.