Sam Zeno is a senior policy analyst for conservation in the Energy & Environment department at the Center for American Progress. She specializes in research, policy recommendations, and local and national communications regarding equitable access to nature, national monuments, America's Arctic, fossil fuel accountability, conservation funding, and outdoor recreation.
In addition to her role at the Center for American Progress, she works part-time as a farmer’s market operator coordinating food access incentives and interfacing between regional farmers and her local community to increase the community’s ties to healthy produce. Sam Zeno earned a degree in social psychology and anthropology from the University of Massachusetts Boston in 2021. In her free time, she enjoys hiking, amateur birding, and trying new coffee shops.