Allyson Ladley Gibson serves as the Executive Director for the Lancaster Clean Water Partners, leading the network and facilitating collaboration between a unique set of multi-sector partners who are working to improve local water quality.

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Allyson spent her childhood in Lancaster County, exploring streams and growing up in her family’s business. She attended the University of Richmond as part of their first class of Environmental Studies majors, then spent 13 years in Maryland with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation in their Education Department. She returned to her Lancaster roots at Kitchen Kettle Village before bringing all of her worlds together with the Lancaster Clean Water Partners starting in January 2018.  

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Allyson participated in Penn State's Rural-Urban Leadership Program RULE and serves as the co-director for the Lancaster Watershed Leadership Academy. She serves on the board of the Partners for Environmental Stewardship as well as her church's Earth Care Committee.    

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Allyson loves life in Lancaster along with her husband and two kids plus a dog and a horse.

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