Alishia Orloff

Alishia Orloff leads the Forest Field Program in the Colville National Forest with Conservation Northwest. She also works on efforts to connect the Cascades to the Rockies through our Colville Wild Campaign for permanent public land protections. Alishia has a strong passion for biocultural restoration and community-based science. She obtained her B.S. from the University of Washington focusing her work on storytelling as a basis for environmental literacy. Further pursuing her interests in restoration, Alishia attended the Yale School of the Environment where she studied agroecological restoration of Hawaiian wetlands. She utilizes community-based approaches with a scientific lens that engages and acknowledges communities most directly impacted. Her work prioritizes the reaffirmation and integration of traditional and local ways of knowing as a lens for holistic understandings of conservation. Alishia also advocates in her community, cooking alongside refugees at Feast World Kitchen, restoring waters with The Lands Council, and participating with Northwest Fair Housing.