Seth Cothrun

Senior Director, Marketing & Development, Sonoran Institute

Tucson, AZ
Cohort: ASU Lodestar, Arizona, 2016-17

Seth Cothrun is the Senior Director of Marketing and Development and is responsible for the Sonoran Institute’s brand and marketing strategies, as well as leading the suite of development strategies that support the organization’s mission. Prior to joining Sonoran Institute, he spent sevin years managing business development and marketing initiatives throughout the Americas in the institutional asset management space, working with some of the largest public and private funds in the world. Prior to the financial industry, he spent several years as a project, then program, manager in the US Forest Service throughout the West, in addition to serving nationally on Type 1 Incident Management and Burned Area Emergency Rehabilitation teams tasked with managing high complexity wildland fire incidents and post-fire effects. He has also lived and worked in México as photographer. He holds an M.A. from the University of Chicago in Anthropology & Latin American Studies and a B.A. from the University of Arizona in Anthropology and Latin American History.