Dr. Morford is an adjunct faculty in the Department of Public Administration, with more than 35 years as a practitioner and academic in the field of human dimensions of natural resources in the U.S. and Canada. She has worked for forestry and watershed non-profit organizations as well as First Nations/Native American governments and social science research and extension organizations in Oregon and British Columbia. She worked for a council of 14 First Nations in coastal British Columbia, where she brokered Memorandums of Understanding with natural resource agencies and industries for co-management and joint ventures and organized and facilitated workshops and conferences on topics such as Aboriginal eco-tourism, cross-cultural communications, non-timber forest products, watershed restoration, and silviculture. She has also worked as Chair of the Oregon State University Extension Program on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation. Dr. Morford taught more than a dozen 60-hour Leadership courses across Oregon through the Ford Institute Leadership Program and designed and taught for-credit Leadership as well as Ecosystems and Culture courses for students at Pacific University of Oregon. She is a certified Myers-Briggs Coach and is passionate about organizational culture and worldviews. Dr. Morford’s undergraduate and master’s degrees are in forestry, rural development, and adult (Extension) education. She conducted her master’s research in Thailand, focusing on the adoption of rural community forestry practices. Dr. Morford’s Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia focused on Program Evaluation Capacity Building in natural resource organizations. As a consultant, Dr. Morford assisted organizational leaders with program planning and evaluation, logic modeling, and social research design/surveys, as well as facilitating group-decision-making and strategic planning processes.