Kathy Lynn is Associate Director of Resource Innovations. Since 2003, Kathy has focused on working with rural communities and Native American tribes in the Pacific Northwest to understand their risk to wildfire, ability to access fire-related programs, and build capacity to reduce wildfire risk. Kathy led the development of the Josephine County Integrated Fire Plan and has provided technical assistance to Jackson and Clackamas Counties. Kathy also created a framework for community fire plans that was adopted and distributed by the Oregon Department of Forestry in the fall of 2004. Kathy has a Master’s degree in Community and Regional Planning from the University of Oregon in 2001. Kathy also served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Haiti from 1996 to 1999.