Daphne Yin

Director of Impact

Daphne is the Director of Impact at Conservation X Labs. She leads impact strategy and tracking, including developing CXL's monitoring, evaluation, and learning system, supporting strategic planning, and seeding partnerships with the conservation, technology, development, public health, and rights communities. She brings over 13 years of experience in environmental management and international development, specializing in forest landscapes and nature-based solutions. She recently served as Head of Climate and Sustainability at Indufor North America. There, she led monitoring, evaluation, and learning efforts and supported strategy for initiatives covering conservation, restoration, sustainable supply chains, and Indigenous Peoples and local communities’ rights, funded by donors including the Climate and Land Use Alliance, USAID, the Climate Investment Funds, Ford Foundation, the Global Environment Facility, and Norad. She also provided environmental and social due diligence, monitoring, and technical assistance to forest and agricultural investments for public and private sector clients spanning tropical, temperate, and dryland ecosystems. Prior to her time at Indufor, she worked on climate finance and sustainable land use solutions at Forest Trends, Project Drawdown, UNIQUE Land Use, and Environmental Financial Products.

Daphne holds a Master's in Environmental Management from the Yale School of Environment, and a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science and minor in Environmental Studies from the University of Chicago. Originally from Minnesota, she lives in Washington, DC with her husband and their cat Marula. She practices as a forest therapy guide on the side, and serves as a Steering Committee member for the Women's Forest Congress.