Prescribed Fire Apprentice Chloe Wanaselja, who uses the pronouns she and they, grew up watching newts navigate burbling streams in the Berkeley California hills. Grounded in these experiences, she graduated from Pomona College in Los Angeles in 2021 with a bachelor’s degree in biology and a minor in visual art. While there, she wrote an undergraduate thesis exploring the effects of various regenerative agriculture practices on soil carbon and health. Since graduating, Chloe served as a GrizzlyCorps climate resiliency fellow at the UC Agriculture and Natural Resources Hopland Research and Extension Center, splitting time between environmental education and land management planning and implementation. It was there that she experienced firsthand the significance of fire to Indigenous land management and California ecosystems and has since participated in prescribed burns and training exchanges (TREX) with the Good Fire Alliance and the Tribal EcoRestoration Alliance. Chloe also brings multiple years of work in construction, ranching, and environmental justice to the fire world, and is eager to learn from people who have committed their lives to learning from the land.