Dana Wiggins is the Director of Outreach and Financial Advocacy for the Virginia Poverty Law Center, where she is an advocate on low-income financial policy issues.
Dana’s background and degree and early career started working on the environmental issues. She has participated in efforts to protect the environment for over 25 years, because she thinks we need to preserve open space, land, clean water and soil, and animals for us and for the next generation. She cares about conservation so that the quality of life for everyone is enriched and enhanced, not degraded or taken away.
Dana enjoys her work with VALCV-EF because she likes staying engaged in environmental issues, and sometimes having the opportunity to merge her passion for low-income advocacy with her passion for the environment and advocacy on environmental issues. Dana loves being a part of an organization that encourages civic engagement as a means to change policies around the environment, and that pushes decision-makers to be strong leaders in conservation efforts, and thinks the mission and action of the organization is important and gives conservation a political and advocacy voice.