Christine Laporte

Christine Laporte serves as CDP’s program manager for the Truist Foundation Western NC Recovery and Resiliency Fund. As a resident of Western North Carolina, Christine can directly serve communities’ recovery and resilience needs to strengthen housing and small businesses in the wake of Hurricane Helene’s severe impacts from flooding and winds. 

With more than 30 years in nonprofits, conservation and Indigenous rights philanthropy, her expertise includes strategic cross-disciplinary analysis, nurturing robust relationships and collaborative leadership. Most recently, she was a program director launching initiatives that weave human resilience into conservation strategies in collaboration with Indigenous leaders sharing “two-eyed seeing.”  

Christine holds a master’s in human dimensions of conservation from Yale University’s School of the Environment and a bachelor’s in environmental studies from Warren Wilson College in Swannanoa, North Carolina, which combined her love of the arts and the natural world, all the while swimming in the Swannanoa River. She and her husband were married along the river’s banks, and her commitment to the Truist Foundation Western NC Recovery and Resiliency Fund’s work is fueled by her deep love for this special region and its amazing communities of natural and human resilience.

Christine lives in Asheville, North Carolina. When not working, she can be found either with her horse, Bodhisattva, having fun with family and friends, or swimming in the nearest body of water.