Alder (Emma) Wheeler is a Forestry Masters student in ESPM and member of the Critical Environmental Justice Lab. They have a background in botany, natural history education, land stewardship, social services, and community organizing and collectives. Born and raised in the Tomales Bay Watershed, they are returning to it to create a community-engaged land management plan for the Point Reyes UC Field Station informed by participatory action research.
Alder is interested in social forestry, queer and disabled ecologies, critical geography, critical natural histories, participatory methods, field courses, horizontal pedagogies, indigenous sovereignty and stewardship, multispecies entanglements, and prison abolition.
