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Maggie McCaffrey Joins the U.S. Institute

Maggie McCaffrey has joined the U.S. Institute as a program manager. McCaffrey has significant federal agency experience, and her emphasis will be on fire and natural resource management. Her primary responsibilities include coordinating collaborative planning and conflict resolution processes and developing and delivering ECR training.

McCaffrey has 10 years of experience in collaboration and community capacity building, with a focus on landscape ecosystem restoration and federal and community wildland fire planning. She also has over 10 years teaching experience, primarily at the university level. She 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 the Institute, McCaffrey 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. She 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.

McCaffrey has a B.A. in History and English from University of Northern Colorado. She completed an M.A. in Linguistics and ESL from Colorado State University, and a Ph.D. in Rhetoric and 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. You may reach McCaffrey at (520) 901.8501 or mccaffrey@ecr.gov.