Meredith Jacobson (she/her) is a PhD candidate in the Environmental Studies Program and Sociology Department at University of Oregon. She is a non-Native researcher and organizer with FireGeneration Collaborative, a youth and Indigenous-led coalition working to reimagine fire policy and culture.

Her dissertation explores historical and present-day relationships to wildfire as a window into land relations. Through analysis of historical documents, her research examines how land, labor, and fire are co-constructed under settler colonialism in the Willamette Valley of Oregon. Partnering with FireGeneration Collaborative, her dissertation also engages young people in collaborative listening circles to envision their futures working and living with fire.

Meredith has a B.S. in Forestry from UC Berkeley and an M.S. in Forest Ecosystems and Society from Oregon State University.  Her background working in land management motivates her to pursue community-engaged scholarship that disrupts settler colonial power and promotes environmental justice.