As it advances plans to provide affordable housing at the former Coast Guard property in Point Reyes Station, the Community Land Trust Association of West Marin has hired a new executive director to take the reins. Jarrod Russell will replace Pam Dorr, who left CLAM in February after two years as executive director to take a job with Habitat for Humanity-Greater San Francisco. Mr. Russell, who started his new job last week, brings over 15 years of experience in nonprofit and corporate leadership to the role, although this will be his first time overseeing a housing nonprofit. “I’ve worked in a lot of different sectors, everything from nonprofits to Fortune 500 companies to startups to academia,” Mr. Russell told the Light. “Rare is the person whose career path is perfectly linear, right? The throughline has always been social and environmental impact.” Mr. Russell co-founded Impactree, an online platform that provides a tool for companies to promote their social change and sustainability efforts, and he was the executive director of Startup San Diego, a nonprofit that nurtured tech startups and worked to connect them with diverse local talent. He has worked in economic development, climate change and sustainability in both the United States and Latin America, where he lived for several years. He is fluent in Spanish. Mr. Russell, who is 41, lives in Fairfax with his wife, Katie Rogers, and their 8-month-old son, Rowan. As renters, they know first-hand about the challenges of finding affordable housing in Marin. “Helping households who have a cost burden, or are at risk of displacement, or who are in substandard living conditions is something that I’m really passionate about,” Mr. Russell said. He joins CLAM as it is pushing forward with its plans for transforming the vacant former Coast Guard property into 54 units of affordable homes. The project is navigating a thicket of county permitting requirements and is not expected to be completed until 2027, three years later than originally planned. Mr. Russell is a longtime friend of Annie O’Connor, the executive director of the Bolinas Community Land Trust, who met him when they were students at the University of California, San Diego, School of Global Policy and Strategy. “It’s an honor and a pleasure to help welcome a leader who is so humble yet confident, strategic and pragmatic, committed to building meaningful relationships in the community, and was called to this important work by his full heart,” Ms. O’Connor said.