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Portrait of Jaime Lara
Wiyot Plaza & Indigenous Garden

Jaime Lara

Wiyot Plaza Site Manager

Jaime Lara (he/they) has been serving as the Wiyot Plaza Site Manager since October 2024 and is currently a Natural Resources graduate student studying cultural burn effects on Native flora and fauna for Blue Lake Rancheria. They obtained a B.S. in Wildlife Conservation and Management with a minor in Native American Studies in 2025.

Jaime is a two-spirit person of Apache, Yaqui, and Cherokee descent, growing up in southern California. They were drawn to Humboldt for its renowned Wildlife program and became deeply inspired by the resilience of the local Indigenous communities. Passionate about wildlife, ethnobotany, and community-building, Jaime is an ecologist working to support tribal, latinx, LGBTQ+, and other marginalized groups, with an awareness of the complexities between Indigenous and Western science.