Katie Jones
Community Engagement Director at Wise Ancestors
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKatie Jones is a Community Engagement Director and plant ecologist with 11 years of experience blending Indigenous knowledge and Western science to advance biodiversity conservation and sovereignty. As an Amskapi Piikani (Blackfeet) woman, she has led community-centered programs and scientific research at NEON and Rising Voices, translating large-scale ecological monitoring into actionable restoration and policy guidance. Based in Boulder, Colorado, she moves between fieldwork, program leadership, and stakeholder engagement, emphasizing culturally grounded stewardship and long-term data integrity. Katie’s work is notable for integrating scalable ecological datasets with community priorities, ensuring that scientific tools support Indigenous governance rather than supplant it.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
The Evergreen State CollegeMaster of Science (M.S.), Botany, Master of Science (M.S.), Botany at Oregon State University
Github Skills (56)
atom-plugin8
gist7
ecology7
wordpress7
gitlab6
data-product6
textlint6
favorites6
blogger6
origami5
markdown5
giphy5
zendesk5
javascript5
staging5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
NEONScience/neon-plant-sampling
Jul 2020 - Mar 2025
Scripts supporting NEON plant biomass and productivity sampling
Contributions:2 PRs, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
cflagg/codingSupportGroup
Mar 2015 - Jul 2020
Contributions:16 commits, 16 pushes in 5 years 4 months
gh-pagesharingneon
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