"The scope of problems that our ecosystems and communities face has created both an urgency to do things at a collective scale and an opportunity to make transformative change."
BIO
Jaimie joined the NFF in October 2023 as the Collaborative Capacity Program Manager. Her program provides collaborative capacity to forest stewardship groups, Tribes and Indigenous communities, and historically excluded communities near National Forests across the U.S. Jaimie also contributes to environmental stewardship activities through facilitation support and technical assistance to partnerships, collaborative groups, and communities nationwide. She is based in Bellingham, Washington on the forever homelands of the Coast Salish peoples and the unceded territories of the Lummi Nation and Nooksack Tribe.
Previously, Jaimie was a consultant and research fellow with The Stewardship Network where she facilitated strategic conversations with collaborative groups and conducted nationally based research on what collaborative groups need to achieve their landscape-scale, social, and ecological goals. She also spent eight years connecting communities through habitat stewardship and trail building projects on federal, state, and local public lands throughout the San Francisco Bay Area with the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy.
Jaimie has a master’s degree in environmental studies from Western Washington University on the Puget Sound and a bachelor’s degree in geography and natural resources planning from Humboldt State University in the coast redwoods of northern California.