Staff Bio
Maggie McCaffrey
Program Manager
Maggie McCaffrey is a program manager for the U.S. Institute, with an emphasis on fire and natural resource management. Her primary responsibilities include coordinating collaborative planning and conflict resolution processes and developing and delivering ECR training. She has 10 years of experience in collaboration and community capacity building, with a focus in landscape ecosystem restoration and federal and community wildland fire planning. She also has over 10 years teaching experience, primarily at the university level. Maggie has a strong interest in landscape-scale ecosystem planning and incorporating new technologies and collaborative modeling approaches into collaborative ecosystem management processes.
Prior to joining USIECR, Maggie worked a total of 16 years in a federal interagency wildland fire program. She designed collaborative processes and facilitated multi-stakeholder meetings and workshops for diverse collaborative resource management and community groups. Maggie also managed interdisciplinary and interagency teams to develop federal fire plans and environmental assessments for a 5.6 million acre interagency fire program, and she partnered with federal, state, and local agencies, organizations, and coalitions to develop and implement community fire plans. She has worked extensively with the collection, classification, and integration of GIS vegetation data for fire behavior modeling and vegetation dynamics simulation models as well as the development and standardization of GIS data layers for wildland fire risk assessment procedures.
Maggie has a B.A. in History/English from University of Northern Colorado. She completed an M.A. in Linguistics/ESL from Colorado State University, and a Ph.D. in Rhetoric/Cultural Studies from Carnegie Mellon University, with a focus on developing and integrating computer-aided writing tools and share-ware and editing tools into individual and team writing projects.
Maggie McCaffrey, (520) 901-8524 mccaffrey@ecr.gov