Jessica
Lambert

Jessica is our Native Lands Partnerships Specialist.  She joined The Wilderness Society in 2022 as a High Meadows Fellow on the Equitable Benefits Results Team. Jessica is a citizen of the Choctaw Nation and a first-generation descendant in the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. Jessica graduated from Princeton where she studied environmental science, American Indian Studies, and Political Anthropology. At Princeton, she focused on environmental justice issues on American Indian lands and communities. She was also deeply involved in advocacy efforts to increase the University's support for Indigenous students and studies.

Before starting at TWS, Jessica worked at the White House Council on Environmental Quality in the Office of the Federal Chief Sustainability Officer. She has also worked on tribal environmental issues at the Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals, the Kachemak Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve (NOAA), and the National Congress of American Indians.