2021 SWAF Panelists

Water Resource Specialist, Pala Environmental Department

Senior Planner, City of San Diego

Biological Program Manager, Rincon Consultants Inc.

Instructor, Ethnobotany & Ethnoecology, Kumeyaay Community College; Chair, Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival

Associate Director, Native Nations Institute

Associate Professor & Extension Specialist, Department of Environmental Science, University of Arizona

Executive Director, Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals
Northern Arizona University

Program Manager - Resource Conservation & Resilient Communities, Southern California Association of Governments

Acting Fire Management Officer (FMO), Bureau of Indian Affairs – Fort Apache Agency

Co-Manager, Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals (ITEP), Tribes & Climate Change Program

Director, USDA Southwest Climate Hub

Southwest Climate Adaptation Science Center (SWCASC)

Tribal Forester, Natural Resources Department, Pueblo of Jemez

Environmental Director, Pala Band of Mission Indians

Tribal Chairman, North Fork Mono Tribe

Director, Campo Environmental Protection Agency, and Policy Advisor to EPA Region 9 Regional Tribal Operations Committee

Assistant Director, Southwest Climate Adaptation Science Center

Pueblo of Laguna, Planning Program Manager

Director, Indigenous Peoples Burning Network and Fire Science, The Nature Conservancy

Hualapai Tribe

Institute for Ecological Monitoring and Management, San Diego State University

USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station

Southwest Practitioners Adaptation Network

FAICP – American Planning Association

Institute for Ecological Monitoring and Management, San Diego State University

Indigenous Strategies

Tribal Capacities and Partnerships Program Manager, Climate Science Alliance

Livelihoods Knowledge Exchange Network (LiKEN)

Deputy Fire Management Officer, DOI National Park Service, Grand Canyon National Park

Professor of Native American Studies, UC Davis

Executive Director, Sky Island Alliance

Director, Santo Domingo Pueblo Natural Resources Department
Hopi-Tewa-Dakota

Coordinator - Tribal Resilience Program, Bureau of Indian Affairs

Chairman, San Xavier District, Tohono O'odham Nation

Executive Director and Founder, Climate Science Alliance

Tribal Environmental Programs Director

New Mexico State Forestry

Co-Founder & Executive Director, Cultural Fire Management Council

Director & Professor, School of Public Affairs, San Diego State University

Conservation Consultant, Hills For Everyone

Executive Director, Endangered Habitats League

Department of Geography, San Diego State University

Owner, Project Manager and Hydrologist, High Water Mark LLC

Southwest Fire-Climate Adaptation Coordinator, Southwest Climate Adaptation Science Center

Professor - School of Forestry, Northern Arizona University

Tohono O’odham Nation

Southwest Climate Adaptation Science Center, American Indian Higher Education Consortium

Researcher, Desert Research Institute

Fire Ecologist, National Park Service