Alaska's marine policy landscape is technically demanding, politically complex, and consequential for the communities that depend on it. Intertidal provides policy advising and advocacy grounded in deep working knowledge of the processes that matter most — the North Pacific Fishery Management Council, the Alaska Board of Fisheries, the U.S. Congress, and the Alaska Legislature — as well as the international frameworks shaping Arctic and North Pacific governance. Jamie brings to this work something most policy consultants cannot: the perspective of someone who has fished these waters commercially for more than two decades, staffed a U.S. Senate office, directed NGO policy programs, and sat at the stakeholder table as an appointed Advisory Panel member. That full-spectrum experience means Intertidal can help clients not just understand the process but navigate it strategically — knowing which lever matters, which relationships to cultivate, and where the real decisions are made.

Complex marine policy issues rarely fail because the science is wrong. They fail because the story isn't told in a way that moves the people who need to act. Jamie trained as a journalist and has spent her career translating between worlds that don't naturally speak each other's language — fishing communities and federal agencies, researchers and legislators, Tribal leaders and national funders. Intertidal offers strategic communications support across the full range of what that translation requires: organizational messaging and positioning, report writing and research synthesis, testimony and public comment preparation, media and stakeholder engagement, and narrative development for campaigns, proposals, and public advocacy. The goal is always the same — clear, credible communication that serves the strategic purpose, reaches the right audience, and holds up under scrutiny.

The most consequential marine policy challenges in Alaska rarely have straightforward solutions. They involve competing interests, incomplete information, long regulatory timelines, and stakeholders who may share goals but not trust. Intertidal provides strategic advising to help organizations think clearly about complex problems, identify realistic pathways forward, and make decisions that are both principled and politically viable. Drawing on two decades of experience across harvesting, Senate and legislative affairs, NGO leadership, regulatory proceedings, and community organizing, Jamie brings a strategic perspective that is grounded in how Alaska's marine policy environment actually works — not how it is supposed to work. Engagements typically involve strategic planning, coalition assessment, stakeholder mapping, and preparation for high-stakes regulatory or legislative moments.

Good policy is built on good evidence — but evidence only changes outcomes when it is accessible, credible, and connected to the questions decision-makers are actually asking. Intertidal conducts and supports applied research focused on fisheries access, community resilience, food security, and marine governance, with a particular emphasis on making research usable in real policy and community contexts. Work includes research design and methodology, community survey development and analysis, qualitative data synthesis, literature review, and report writing. Jamie’s experience informs an approach that takes both the science and the human dimensions of marine resource management seriously. Intertidal also provides drafting and editorial support to research teams and institutions seeking to communicate findings to non-technical audiences.

Some of the most important work in marine policy happens not in regulatory proceedings or legislative offices but in the rooms where scientists, community members, policymakers, and practitioners sit down together to figure out what they know, what they don't, and what to do next. Intertidal designs and leads facilitated processes that bridge those worlds — expert panels, community convenings, stakeholder workshops, and interdisciplinary retreats where the goal is not just conversation but actionable outcomes. Jamie brings to facilitation the same quality that runs through all of her work: the ability to hold credibility with people who hold very different relationships to the resource and the process, and to move a group toward clarity without forcing consensus that isn't real. Intertidal also provides research synthesis support for institutions and initiatives that need complex, multi-source findings distilled into clear, accessible products for decision-makers, funders, and the public.