Katherine Siegel (she/her/hers) is an Assistant Professor of Forest Conservation Biology in the Institute of Forestry & Conservation at the University of Toronto. Her interdisciplinary research seeks to advance sustainable and equitable management of forest ecosystems in the context of rapid global environmental change. Much of her current work focuses on the impacts of changing wildfire regimes on forest social-ecological systems in western North America, integrating conservation science, global change ecology, econometrics and environmental data science while co-producing knowledge through collaborations with land management agencies. Previously, she was a National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellow based at the University of Colorado-Boulder. She earned a PhD in Environmental Science, Policy, and Management from the University of California-Berkeley.