Elizabeth Pickett
Since 2008, as Executive Director of Hawaii Wildfire Management Organization, Elizabeth Pickett has worked with the HWMO staff to implement numerous wildfire mitigation, planning, and education projects throughout Hawaii. As Executive Director, she has led collaborative projects that help wildfire awareness and preparedness in Hawaii. These include developing the first-ever statewide fire history map and database, assessing wildfire hazards for every community in the state, working with communities to develop and implement community wildfire protection plans, co-developing the Pacific Fire Exchange for the development and sharing of wildfire related science throughout the Pacific, and implementing numerous fuels reduction projects across Hawaii.
Elizabeth earned a Masters of Environmental Science degree Yale School of Forestry 2007, where she focused research on public impact on and contributions to natural resource management in Hawaii, and a Bachelors degree UC Berkeley 2000.
