Trisha Moslin: Operations, Finance, and Organizational Strategy
Trisha Moslin is an operations, finance, and organizational strategy leader with more than two decades of experience across international public health, academic research administration, nonprofit management, and environmental conservation. Her professional work has focused on building internal business infrastructure, leading cross-functional teams, and supporting complex program finances for global organizations.
Current Executive Leadership
Trisha serves as Director of Strategy and Planning for Gift Planning at The Nature Conservancy. In this role, she helps align fundraising and estate planning operations with broader conservation goals, supporting department-wide execution, strategic resource planning, and stronger organizational communication systems.
Her work at The Nature Conservancy reflects a broader professional focus on connecting operational structure with mission-driven outcomes. Through strategy, planning, and collaboration, she supports teams that depend on strong internal systems, careful resource allocation, and clear long-term direction.
Global Development and Research Administration
Before her work at The Nature Conservancy, Trisha spent more than a decade at the Population Reference Bureau, where she held multiple senior leadership roles and later served as Business Development Director. Her responsibilities included system innovation, program finance, proposal budgeting, compliance operations, and organizational improvement.
At PRB, Trisha helped design and strengthen organization-wide internal innovation frameworks to support modern program delivery and more effective operations. Her leadership connected business development, finance, systems planning, and program execution across global public health and demographic research initiatives.
She also served as Finance Director for major USAID-funded global health initiatives, including the PACE, IDEA, and BRIDGE projects. Her work included multi-million dollar program finance, institutional proposal budgeting, and compliance support for complex international development projects.
Trisha also acted as Administration Core Director for the Population and Poverty Research Initiative, known as PopPov, which examined economic development alongside population and health metrics. This work further connected research administration, financial systems, and policy-focused global development.
Early Career and Public Health Roots
Trisha's early career included direct experience in community development, public health, research support, and nonprofit operations. As a Peace Corps Volunteer in rural Nicaragua, she supported community-led initiatives and localized development projects, building a foundation for later work in global development and organizational leadership.
She also supported regional policy and research development through the Latin America Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Her early conservation experience included work with the Land Trust Alliance, where she gained foundational experience in nonprofit logistics and land conservation infrastructure.
In Atlanta, Georgia, Trisha coordinated frontline public health and clinical logistics at the Feminist Women's Health Center. This role added practical public health and operational experience to a career that would later span international development, finance, research administration, and environmental conservation.
Core Professional Strengths
- Organizational strategy, operations planning, and internal business infrastructure.
- Nonprofit finance, proposal budgeting, compliance operations, and resource planning.
- Cross-functional leadership across global development, public health, and conservation teams.
- USAID project finance, research administration, and multi-million dollar program support.
Professional Certifications
To support her work in organizational leadership and development operations, Trisha holds professional credentials in managing organizational change and development-focused project management. These include Managing Organizational Change for Managers from LinkedIn and Project Management for Development Professionals, known as PMD Pro, from Humentum.
Professional Focus
Across her career, Trisha's work has centered on helping organizations operate with greater clarity, structure, and strategic alignment. Her experience bridges finance, operations, global development, public health, research administration, conservation, and long-term organizational planning.
This combination of practical field experience, senior nonprofit leadership, financial management, and systems design reflects a career built around strengthening organizations that work on complex public health, research, development, and environmental challenges.