Meredith Jacobson, PhD Student

Board Member

Eugene, OR

Meredith is a PhD student at the University of Oregon studying social and cultural dimensions of land management. As a white non-Native person, she thinks about the politics of allyship and settler colonialism in fire management. She is a Research Associate with the FireGeneration Collaborative, a volunteer with Willamette Valley Fire Collaboration, and a teacher seeking to engage students in enacting a more socially and ecologically just world. She has a B.S. in Forestry from UC Berkeley and an M.S. in Forest Ecosystems and Society from Oregon State University. Before graduate school, she was a Forestry Aide for CAL FIRE and an Environmental Educator with the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History. During her graduate studies, she has worked on applied social science research in collaboration with the InterTribal Timber Council, the Ecosystem Workforce Program, and the Watershed Research and Training Center.