Associate Professor
University of California, Davis
Davis, California
Emily Schlickman is an Associate Professor at UC Davis whose work focuses on wildfire adaptation and land stewardship. She co-authored Design by Fire (Routledge, 2023), authored the forthcoming children’s book Only We (Yosemite Conservancy, 2026), and curated the exhibitions Pyro Futures (Manetti Shrem Museum, 2023) and Good Fire (MOSAC, 2023). A qualified fire practitioner, she conducts prescribed burns across Northern California. Her work has been featured in major national media, and elements of her fire research are held in the Smithsonian’s Environmental History Collection. She serves on California’s Wildfire and Forest Resilience Task Force Science Advisory Panel.
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THUR-C04: Myth vs. Evidence: What Science Says About Designing for Wildfire
Thursday, September 17, 2026
2:15 PM - 3:30 PM PT