Who We Are
York Land Trust is a nonprofit organization that protects and cares for significant natural lands and waterways in the greater York Maine area for the benefit of the community and the environment.
Board of Directors
- David Radue, President
- Clifford O’Connor, Vice President
- Gail Gilchrest, Secretary
- Stephen Bousquet, Treasurer
- Jared Chase
- Karen Arsenault
- Wayne Boardman
- Shaun Dillon
- Ala Reid
- Greg Wagoner
- Nancy Nadler
- Anna DiChiara
Staff
Amelia Nadilo, Executive Director
Amelia Nadilo joined York Land Trust as its Executive Director in October 2022 and enjoys this role as it combines her passions of environmentalism, education, and community.
With a B.S. in Secondary Education from Penn State University, Amelia has worked as an educator and program director in California, New Hampshire, Croatia, Italy and Thailand. Prior to YLT, she served as the Director of the Catalina Environmental Leadership Program on Catalina Island in California, an educational partnership with Jean-Michel Cousteau’s Ocean Futures Society.
Amelia is an advocate for inclusivity, social change, and connecting youth with the outdoors. Outside of work and when she isn’t chasing her 3 and 1 year old boys around, she enjoys spending time with family and friends, hiking, gardening, teaching yoga, being at the beach, and making pottery.
Doreen MacGillis, Land Protection Specialist
Doreen has been working in the environmental field for more than 25 years on a variety of issues including open space protection, community gardening, estuaries restoration, food and water safety, and solid waste education.
From 1999 – 2022, Doreen was YLT’s Executive Director and oversaw the organization’s growth from an all-volunteer land trust to a professionally-staffed land trust implementing regional initiatives. Doreen is a founding member of the Mount Agamenticus to the Sea Conservation Initiative (MtA2C), an effort led by a coalition of ten conservation entities, that has raised $30 million to conserve land in the greater Mt. Agamenticus region of southern Maine since 2002. Today, there are over 15,000 protected acres in the MtA2C region.
She holds a Master’s of Science Degree in Environmental Studies from Antioch University New England and a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Communications from Central Connecticut State University. She lives in York with her husband, David and son, Daniel. Her passions include: being a mom, skiing, hiking, gardening and singing in a community chorus.
Patty O’Connor, Development Assistant
Patty comes from across the Piscataqua River, where she spent over 17 years at The New Hampshire Charitable Foundation (NHCF). For eight years, she managed the administration of the regional grant program, regional Development activities including Planned Giving, as well as Outreach and Communications for the Piscataqua Region. During her last nine years at NHCF, Patty worked Statewide in the Philanthropy Department as Philanthropic Fund Manager working daily with Development staff structuring permanent charitable funds including bequests and charitable gift annuities. She also worked closely with the Vice President of Philanthropy, the Controller and the Vice President of Program Operations on compliance issues and many departmental cross-functional teams on systems and process improvements.
Her past volunteer work includes the Town of North Hampton 250th Anniversary Committee, the North Hampton Recycling Center Volunteer and eight years on the Conservation Commission. Patty enjoys cooking, gardening, hiking, sailing and many outside activities.
Liz Walworth, Stewardship Director
Liz has been working with land for over a decade, beginning as a farmhand and ardent trail builder. They began work with YLT in 2021 following a season as Trail Team Leader with the Maine Conservation Corps, where they coordinated with public lands and land trusts to build better trail infrastructure across the state of Maine. They currently sit on the board of the Peaks Island Land Preserve where they oversee the Ice pond Rewilding Initiative – a community effort to reintroduce native plant species to disturbed land on the island.
Liz holds a BS in Environmental Studies from Suffolk University in Boston and has experience in stewardship, project planning and grant writing. Liz’s passions in life are rock work, backpacking, and textile arts.
Evelyn Brown, Stewardship Coordinator
