ESLC announces staff and board additions
Eastern Shore Land Conservancy is delighted to announce the following changes and additions to our dynamic land conservation team. After six years of serving multiple roles within the organization covering stewardship, preserve management, and restoration, Larisa Prezioso has been promoted to ESLC’s director of land conservation. As director, Larisa will provide leadership for land protection, stewardship, and restoration programs, as well as manage and coordinate acquisition and conservation easement projects. She will also oversee ESLC’s two new employees, stewardship assistant Hannah Harrison and conservation manager Kelsie Fronheiser.
“ESLC continues to refine a talented team of experts supported by a devoted and experienced board of directors,” commented ESLC President & CEO Steve Kline. “From complex land use and policy work to growingly complicated conservation and stewardship, ESLC is fully equipped to tackle the Eastern Shore’s many-layered land use challenges.”
Hannah Harrison served as ESLC’s 2026 summer intern having recently graduated from Salisbury University with a degree in Earth Science and Marine Geoscience, and a minor in Geographic Information Systems. As ESLC’s new stewardship assistant, Harrison will conduct the annual monitoring of ESLC’s growing portfolio of more than 349 conservation easements. Kelsie Fronheiser holds a BS from Towson University as well as a Masters in Environmental Science & Management from UC Santa Barbara’s Bren School of Environmental Science & Management. She most recently served as a conservation planner at the Kent Soil & Water Conservation District and brings to her new conservation management role a wealth of experience from prescribed burning to environmental education and agricultural best management practices.
ESLC is also grateful to welcome our newest board member this summer, Brennan Starkey. An Eastern Shore native, Starkey is an avid conservationist, farmer, sailor, hunter and fisherman, who has formerly served as a board member and former board chair of ShoreRivers in Easton, vice president of Radcliffe Creek School, chair of the Kollegewidgwok Sailing Education Association, and board member of the Northeast Center for Risk Management. “ESLC has been at the forefront of preserving habitat, farmland, and open space while advocating for responsible land planning for more than twenty years,” commented Starkey. “I hope to contribute value to the Land Conservancy mission through the experience I’ve gained as a farmer and conservationist.”
ESLC is grateful for the time and service of outgoing employees David Satterfield and Autumn Conley, and of outgoing board members Matt Nielsen, Helen Spinelli, Lindsay Thompson, and Darius Johnson.
