Jordan Lee

Jordan is the program coordinator for the Good Fire Healing Coalition with Blue Lake Rancheria. She studied cultural geography and interactional linguistics as an undergraduate at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where she researched the racialized history of the conservation field and stakeholder engagement along the Colorado River Basin with the CU WELS Group. Jordan also worked as a professional researcher in the Suding Lab to collaborate with local land management agencies to develop local grasslands wildfire fuel models and understand what types of fire mitigation strategies are most effective in the grasslands-urban interface. In the broader community, Jordan worked as a coach and TA CU Public Achievement, where she advocated alongside a high school team for an ethnic studies curriculum in their school district. Outside of this research and advocacy, Jordan has worked as a mentor and teacher with Chibi no Gakko, a Japanese-American heritage camp. 

Since graduating, Jordan has worked as a wildland firefighter and fire effects monitor with the Pike National Forest and Redwoods National Park, travelling the country as a practitioner of wild and prescribed fire. She is deeply interested in the interconnected nature of ecological and cultural stewardship, particularly as it relates to intentional fire, and in working across different agencies and institutions to further ecological and community well-being. She is honored to have the opportunity to learn from and support cultural fire practitioners through this role, and in doing so, deepen her roots in Northern California by tending to these lands alongside their rightful stewards.