Marie Stringer Yeagle

yeagle@sostrategy.com
Nashville, TN

Marie Stringer Yeagle joins Southern Strategy Group from the Tennessee Chapter of The Nature Conservancy. As Director of Government Relations, Marie gained unique insight into legislative and regulatory affairs impacting environmental and business interests.

Prior to The Nature Conservancy, Marie served as the Executive Director of the Heritage Conservation Trust Fund, a state entity created to conserve the state’s natural resources through strategic partnerships with landowners, government agencies, non-profit organizations and private companies. In its first three years, the Heritage Conservation Trust Fund leveraged $30 million in state funding to spur more than $100 million in conservation projects.

Marie also served as a policy analyst in the first term of the Bredesen Administration, designing legislation that created the Tennessee Heritage Conservation Trust Fund; and researching and formulating the core proposal and assisting in the passage of Voluntary Pre-K for Tennessee legislation.

Born and raised in Nashville, Marie is a graduate of the University of the South. Marie is a board member of KIPP Academy Nashville and an active member of Christ Church Cathedral.