Our Staff

Claire Folkman joined the Fairmount Park Conservancy in November 2017, where she provides support to the Finance & Development teams around a range of administrative tasks.  Claire brings to the Conservancy over five years of executive non-profit administrative and facilities support experience and is excited to lend her talents to helping Philadelphia’s flourishing parks.  In addition to her work at the Fairmount Park Conservancy, Claire is co-editor, publisher and contributor to the award winning all-girl comic anthology Dirty Diamonds, which provides a dedicated outlet for the stories and experiences of female comic creators.  Claire spends her free time exploring her Fishtown neighborhood with her husband and obsessively telling her dog, Emma Longdog, how fluffy she is. Her favorite Philly park is Penn Treaty Park.