Jamie founded Intertidal Consulting with over twenty years of experience in Alaska fisheries, engaging in commercial and subsistence harvesting, marine policy, communications, conservation, administration, and community organizing. Her work centers community resilience, equity, food security, impactful storytelling, and bridge-building with policy-makers and implementers. Before founding Intertidal, she led Senator Lisa Murkowski’s Team Ocean, advising on issues and appropriations from fisheries to water and wastewater. Before that, Jamie directed the Working Waterfronts program at the Alaska Marine Conservation Council and represented conservation and coastal communities on the North Pacific Fishery Management Council Advisory Panel. She also served as Senator Dan Sullivan of Alaska’s first-ever Washington D.C. staff assistant and internship coordinator.  

Jamie is a fifth-generation salmon harvester, raised in Dillingham and Ekuk, Alaska, on the traditional lands of the Yupik people, where she returns each summer to fish with her family. She earned her B.A. in Journalism and Public Communication with an emphasis in Public Communication at the University of Alaska Anchorage and a Master of Science in Marine Systems and Policies from the University of Edinburgh, where she focused on fishery access as the foundation of well-being and resilience in coastal communities.