Niaz Dorry began her career in environmental justice as a Greenpeace campaigner, focusing on fisheries issues. For over two decades, she has been working on advancing the rights and ecological benefits of small-scale fishing communities as a means of protecting global marine biodiversity. She came to the Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance (NAMA) in 2008 and served for eight years as NAMA’s Coordinating Director. Simultaneously, she served as Treasurer on the Board of the National Family Farm Coalition (NFFC). In 2018, she was named Executive Director of NFFC. Since then, NAMA and NFFC have entered into a shared leadership model, with Niaz now at the helm of both organizations.
Prior to joining NAMA, Niaz was Interim CEO for the Healthy Building Network (HBN), helping to apply environmental justice principles to building materials at a time when HBN was rebuilding homes in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Dorry’s environmental work over the years has been cited in numerous publications. She has been recognized by Time Magazine as a “Hero for the Planet.” She is a graduate of the Rockwood Leadership Institute’s Leading from Inside Out and the Institute for Nonprofit Practice’s Core Certificate Program. niaz@namanet.org