Jill Weitz2020Salmon Beyond Borders campaign director Jill Weitz loves living in the Tongass National Forest of Southeast Alaska, where Juneau has been her home for more than a decade. Growing up in Minnesota on the Mississippi River, Jill’s interests have always involved water, from the wild rivers and lakes to frozen hockey rinks - and now, the traditional Tlingit waters and lands that connect the icefields to the ocean. Jill originally moved to Southeast Alaska to complete a national term of service as an AmeriCorps member, and after a "quick hiatus" to complete graduate school at the University of Denver's Sturm College of Law, she moved right back to serve as a Compliance and Enforcement Officer for the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation. Since late 2013, Jill has been working with communities throughout the Alaska / Washington / Idaho / Montana / British Columbia transboundary regions for SalmonState. The Salmon Beyond Borders campaign is SalmonState’s flagship project and allows Jill to work with some incredible transboundary partners. All bios are from the year the award was presented.