Emma Sloan, PhD student

Emma’s academic interest centers on the interrelationship between social and ecological environments as the precursors of health. She earned a BS in Environmental Science from the University of Oregon, where she studied environmental justice issues in Oregon forests. She has since worked as a Health Policy Planner for Eagle County, Colorado, where she focused on integrating health equity and environmental justice in land use, housing, and food systems. She completed her Masters with the FoLIAGe group, investigating equity in resilience for forest-dependent communities in the context of wildfire in Oregon. She’s currently working on community forestry in the PNW region for her PhD.