<strong>Sheila Harrington</strong> is an author, sailor, and environmental advocate with a thirty-year career in the conservation field. She was the founding executive director of the Land Trust Alliance of BC (LTABC) from 1997 to 2011 and a director of the Lasqueti Island Nature Conservancy for more than twelve years. She is co-author of the bestselling <em>Islands in the Salish Sea Community Atlas</em>, a finalist for two BC Book Awards and third-place winner of the BC Historical Federation prize. She edited and published <em>Positive Vibrations</em> magazine in the 90s and <em>Giving the Land a Voice, Mapping Our Home Places</em> and the <em>BC Kingfisher</em> magazine in the early 2000s. She currently lives off-grid on Lasqueti Island.