Community Leader and Conservationist
Ms. Vicky Lowell is a community activist who has served in a variety of local and regional capacities during her more than fifty years of living in Falmouth. She has chaired the Planning Board and the Falmouth Hospital Board of Trustees. She was a founder and first president of the local land trust. Representing all of Cape Cod, she held elective office as a Barnstable County Commissioner and helped lead the campaigns to create the Cape Cod Commission, a regional planning and regulatory agency, on which she subsequently served as a founding member and the Cape Cod Land Bank. She has served on the boards of the Association to Preserve Cape Cod, Cape Cod Healthcare, and the Cape Cod Foundation. She also worked as the Town Planner for the Martha’s Vineyard town of West Tisbury.
Ms. Lowell holds a master’s degree in Urban and Environmental Policy from Tufts University and a B.A. from Radcliffe College.