As the Community-Engaged Research Coordinator with the Minneapolis/St. Paul Long-Term Ecological Research project (MSP LTER) and CCL, Jessie helps brainstorm and facilitate creative science engagements and communication. She works on tools for long term partnerships between the university and Twin Cities' communities, drawing on past and current work with a variety of university and community collaborators. She will work with the LTER and partners on developing methods for evaluating and shifting attitudes around urban ecological resilience (such as assumptions about lawns, water, invasive species, road salt, tree planting, pollution control, urban agriculture, cumulative impact responsibilities, etc).
Jessie has a degree in Heritage Studies and Public History, with an interdisciplinary background in arts instruction, food service, wild food resource research in rural Alaska, rural and urban farming, and in Twin Cities highway/development history and ongoing impacts. She has experience interviewing the public and developing workshops and community events around subsistence resources and regulations, connections to local nature, seasonal change and climate change, and Twin Cities transportation and urban planning.
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