Janae Field
Janaé Reneaud Field was raised in the rural community of Carland Michigan. She earned a bachelor of
science degree in Wildlife Biology from Michigan State University and then a master’s degree in public
administration with a concentration in land conservation from Eastern Michigan University. Janaé was
the executive director at the Guadalupe-Blanco River Trust (Seguin, Texas) until 2011 when she moved
to El Paso. Previously, she had served four years as the development and grants manager of the
Washtenaw Land Trust in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She has worked for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife at the
Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge and has also served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Bulgaria.
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March 6, 2024
S3E7: Saving the Chihuahuan Desert with Frontera Land Alliance
The Chihuahuan Desert stretches across northern Mexico and the southwestern United States, encompassing extraordinary biological and cultural diversity. Chris Clarke talks with Janae Reneaud Field, Kathia Gonzalez, and Rocio Ronquillo of El Paso's Frontera Land Alliance about protecting this often-overlooked desert. They discuss community conservation, environmental education, and the campaign to protect Castner Range, while exploring what it means to build a conservation movement rooted in the communities that call the Chihuahuan Desert home.