Since joining CEA in 2020, Forrest has supported a variety of philanthropic and nonprofit clients in the climate, land use, and marine conservation sectors, including the ClimateWorks Foundation, the Valhalla Foundation, the Ocean Resilience and Climate Alliance, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, and the Forest, People, Climate collaborative. Forrest has designed several grantmaking strategies on short-lived climate pollutants and managed grants for clients focused on Indigenous land tenure and stopping the oil and gas buildout.
Prior to joining CEA, Forrest worked as a staff scientist for a small nonprofit in the Peruvian Amazon, where he researched subsistence hunting patterns and assisted with various sustainable development projects. He has worked as an outdoors trip leader in Norway and Alaska and spent a year in The Gambia, West Africa, teaching seventh grade on a Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Traveling Fellowship.
Forrest earned a joint bachelor’s degree, cum laude, in Earth and planetary sciences and environmental science and public policy from Harvard University.