Angela Panaccione, Vice President

Angela Panaccione is a Senior Environmental Planner at Pioneer Valley Planning Commission (PVPC). Her role at PVPC includes serving as the Non-Point Source Coordinator for Hampden & Hampshire County, supporting municipalities with the MVP 1.0 & 2.0 Planning Process & administering MVP Action grants for municipalities as Project Manager, assisting the Connecticut River Stormwater Committee with public education & outreach under the MS4 Permit and supporting Western MA communities with the much-needed service of Conservation Agent under PVPC’s “Rent an Agent Program”.

Prior to joining PVPC, she worked as Conservation Director for the Town of Charlton from 2021-2023 and as Conservation Agent/Stormwater Coordinator for the Town of Palmer from 2013-2021. She was also the Conservation Agent for her hometown of Brimfield from 2011-2015, Chair of the Brimfield Conservation Commission from 2017-2019, and Chair of Brimfield’s Open Space Committee from 2014-2021. Angela has a B.S. in Environmental Law & Policy from UMass Amherst and a M.A.S.S in Environment & Community from Humboldt State University where she focused her research and teaching on Environmental Dispute Resolution, Cross Cultural Communications and Consensus Based Governance. She has received training from the National Center for Environmental Conflict Resolution in Collaboration with Native Nations and Tribal Consultation as well as Crafting Collaborative Solutions to Environmental Conflicts, is a Nationally Certified Stormwater Inspector under the EPA’s Construction General Permit (CGP), a Local Coordinator for the North Atlantic Aquatic Connectivity Collaborative (NAACC) and certified in National Green Infrastructure Certification Program (NGICP). Angela received the MACC Conservation Administrator of the Year award in 2019 for her work with Palmer Conservation Commission and an EPA Merit Award in 2019 for Excellence in Stormwater Education for her work with the Central Mass Regional Stormwater Coalition.

When she’s not working, she loves being a mom and teaching her children everything and anything to do with the environment and being outdoors- each weekend her son picks a new place on the map to explore and learns a new plant that he has to identify every time he sees it that day or no Ice cream after. She grew up in Massachusetts but has traveled around the United States extensively and has driven cross country 13 times. Angela joined the Board of MSMCP in 2014 because she wanted to expand the opportunities for Western Mass communities to be involved in the organization and to coordinate training in the Western part of the state.