Reimagining Forestry and Fire Career Pathways for Justice-Impacted People in the Bay Area, California
This project brought together an interdisciplinary team of students, faculty advisors, and community partners to reimagine a workforce-led and community-centered transition to living and working with fire in California’s landscape. The project considered how the Forestry and Fire Recruitment Program (FFRP), and similar workforce development programs across the American West, can better serve justice-involved and systems-impacted people while meeting growing demands on the forestry and fire workforce. By facilitating visioning and listening sessions with FFRP’s Career Training Program cohorts, the project identified concrete entry points for future-ready forestry and fire policy and programs to expand engagement and partnerships with justice-involved and systems-impacted people in the San Francisco-Bay area, and beyond. The project will build on and contribute to ongoing initiatives of the Underground Scholars Research Cohort and the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment. Learn more about the project’s outcomes here.
