Elizabeth Pickett is Co-Executive Director of Hawaiʻi Wildfire Management Organization, where she began working in 2008. Elizabeth works with staff and partners across the state and Pacific region to implement wildfire mitigation, planning, and education projects. Through her time at HWMO, she has witnessed how important collaboration and inclusive processes are on all projects and believes such a coordinated and respectful approach is the pathway to wildfire readiness and resilience in Hawaiʻi. She is Vice President of the Big Island Wildfire Coordinating Group and helped co-found the Pacific Fire Exchange project to develop and connect fire and land management science and practice. She earned a Master of Environmental Science degree from Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and a bachelor's degree from the University of California, Berkeley