Alder Wheeler is a Forestry Masters student in ESPM and member of the Critical Environmental Justice Lab and the Disabled Ecologies 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 organize stewardship trainings at the UC Berkeley Point Reyes Field Station that center marginalized identities. These community workshops, such as Queer Chainsaw Trainings, attempt to collectivly re-define stewardship education and practice using participatory action research.
Alder is interested in social forestry and community stewardship, disabled ecologies, critical geographies and natural histories, participatory methods, field courses, horizontal pedagogies, Indigenous sovereignty and stewardship, and prison abolition.
