Michelle Medley-Daniel is the Co-Executive Director of the Watershed Research and Training Center, a nonprofit headquartered in Hayfork that creates stewardship jobs to support community well-being and healthy lands and waters. With roots in Hayfork and more than twenty years of nonprofit experience, Michelle is inspired by rural communities and the people and organizations working to sustain them.

Michelle also serves as Co-Director of the Fire Networks partnership, a national, multi-organizational effort co-led by The Nature Conservancy that supports community leaders across the country who are working to live better with wildfire. Michelle’s Fire Networks work focuses on strengthening local leadership, building relationships, and connecting local actions to larger systems.

Michelle studied studio art and English at HSU and enjoys backpacking, kayaking, local history, and connecting with people who care deeply about place.