Jaimie earned her J.D. from Michigan State University College of Law with a Certificate in Indigenous
Law and Policy in 2011, where she focused on Indigenous environmental justice issues and clerked for
the Native American Rights Fund in Alaska and Canadian Senator St. Germain, Chair of the Senate
Standing Committee on Aboriginal Peoples. She is licensed to practice law in Montana and New Mexico.
She spent the first two years serving as an AmeriCorps Equal Justice Works Indian Law Fellow in
Montana and as an Alaska Native Law Fellow in Bristol Bay, Alaska, before relocating to New Mexico to
serve as a public defender, environmental justice attorney, in-house water, environmental and natural
resources law attorney for a Pueblo, and research and policy analyst for a non-profit federation of
traditional acequia communities. Jaimie joined the WWP mid-December. She has resided in the
southwest for a decade with her partner and two cats. She enjoys the CDT, wilderness trails
stewardship, being with water, looking for porcupine, and playing with Lego.