Jackie Grant

Biography

Jackie Grant is the Executive Director of Grand Staircase Escalante Partners, which is the official Friends Group of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument (GSENM). Jackie came to this position after 20 years embedded within academia where she progressed from Ph.D. to David H. Smith Fellow, and finally to Full Professor of Biology in the Department of Geosciences at Southern Utah University. Her career as a scientist and educator put her in an excellent position from which to lead the Bureau of Land Management’s primary national monument focused on science.