Executive Director Martha Cochran has spent more than 30 years working for the community and environment of the Roaring Fork Valley. She is a former educator, business owner and newspaper publisher, with degrees in journalism and public administration. She served on the Glenwood Spring City Council and  the city planning commission, worked on political and open space  campaigns and has been on the board of many community organizations, including a founding board member of Colorado Animal Rescue. She currently serves on the board of the Aspen Valley Community Foundation and the J.Robert Young Foundation.

Suzanne Fusaro Stephens, Associate Director, is a Roaring Fork Valley native who has been working in the field of land conservation since the spring 2001. Before coming to AVLT, she spent two years as the Director of Land Conservation at the Roaring Fork Conservancy, and then became interim director for the Western Colorado Agricultural Heritage Fund. Previously she was an environmental educator for the Aspen Center for Environmental Studies after graduating from Reed College in Portland, Oregon with B.A. in biology in 1997.  Suzanne now lives in Carbondale with her husband Jeff.