Fran Schofield

Fran Schofield brings experience in coastal zone management, environmental planning, real estate, communications, and nonprofit leadership to Friends of Pleasant Bay. The daughter and granddaughter of conservationists, she graduated from Mount Holyoke College and pursued graduate studies in Landscape Architecture at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. Her early career included positions with the Massachusetts Executive Office of Coastal Zone Management and in environmental planning and community development.

A Cape Cod REALTOR® for more than two decades, Fran has represented buyers and sellers throughout the Pleasant Bay estuary, giving her an unusual opportunity to experience and learn about the Bay from many perspectives. She represented Pleasant Bay Community Boating in acquiring its waterfront campus, later served on its board, and helped guide the campus’s early growth. She also served as co-listing agent for the sale of Sipson Island, one of Pleasant Bay’s most significant and remarkable landmarks.

Fran chairs FoPB’s Communications Committee and will soon join the Orleans Conservation Trust board. She also serves with the Community Development Partnership and Center for Coastal Studies, co-founded the Cape Cod Climate Change Collaborative, and received the 2024 Massachusetts Commonwealth Heroine Award.

Having sailed and kayaked its waters, walked its shores, and explored much of the estuary through her work, Fran has come to know Pleasant Bay as both an extraordinarily beautiful place and a natural resource vitally important to Cape Cod. She feels privileged to put her planning and communications skills to work helping protect it.