Tuell Consulting

Who we are: Conservation Advocate and Attorney at Law    

Cyndi Tuell is an attorney and conservation advocate with 16 years of experience. She is an elected member of the Sierra Club's Grand Canyon Chapter Executive Committee, currently serving as the Chair of the Grand Canyon Chapter,  and the Program Chair  of the Sierra Club Nopales Group based in southern Arizona.  

Cyndi has worked on federal public lands management issues in New Mexico and Arizona since 2007, working with national and local conservation partners in several western states to protect the habitat of native species and ensure good land management policies are implemented to protect natural resources and quiet recreation opportunities. 

Cyndi, a second generation Tucsonan, received a law degree and a bachelor of science in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Arizona. While in law school, she worked for the Sonoran Institute researching conservation issues related to State Trust Lands and co-authored a publication on State Trust Lands in the West with the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. She also worked with law professor and author Robert Glennon doing research on water and sewer infrastructure as well as researching the water demands of alfalfa agriculture.

Cyndi received the Nancy Zierenberg Sky Island Advocate Award in 2013, and the Sierra Club - Grand Canyon Chapter's Conservationist of the Year Award in 2015.  In 2021 Cyndi and her friend and co-worker Greta Anderson were awarded the James A. St. Amant Special Award at the 46th Annual Desert Tortoise Symposium for their work to protect the Sonoran desert tortoise. In 2024, the Sierra Club - Grand Canyon Chapter awarded Cyndi an award for leadership. 

Cyndi is currently the Arizona and New Mexico Director at Western Watersheds Project, a non-profit environmental conservation group working to improve public lands management throughout the western United States,  protecting native species and the habitats they depend on, with a primary focus on addressing the negative impacts of livestock grazing.  Cyndi is the union president at Western Watersheds Workers Union, formed in 2024.

Tuell Consulting was born in 2013 when Cyndi wanted to focus her work on borderlands advocacy and take a more radical approach to addressing environmental concerns.  Her work at Western Watersheds Project began in 2018 and is a wonderful fit for her approach.