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 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 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 through complex problems, identify realistic pathways forward, and make decisions that are both principled and politically viable.

Good policy is built on good evidence, however, 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. 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 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. 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.