Cerissa left behind a cubicle-bound career and moved out West to work with her hands in the dirt re-establishing native plants on Mount Tamalpais. After several years of working in the environmental field and navigating Bay Area traffic by bicycle, she moved to Arizona to complete her M.S. in environmental sciences and policy from Northern Arizona University. Cerissa joined the Trust in 2013 to lead the development of the North Rim Ranches Climate Change Adaptation Plan. In her role as the climate resilience director, she works to advance collaborative approaches that improve the health of forests and watersheds on public lands through science, local knowledge, and stewardship.
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