Jessica Martinez serves as Deputy Director of the California Fire Safe Council, where she oversees organizational operations, finance, grantmaking, and strategic program implementation in support of community-based wildfire resilience across California. In this role, she strengthens statewide capacity for wildfire preparedness, mitigation, and long-term landscape stewardship through cross-sector collaboration and systems leadership.
With more than a decade of experience designing and leading community-based resilience initiatives, Jessica’s work sits at the intersection of land stewardship, nonprofit systems management, and collaborative governance. Prior to joining CFSC, she advanced programs spanning sustainable agriculture and land management, public and community health within Urban Indian communities, and culturally grounded initiatives rooted in Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK).
As an Indigenous leader and traditional land steward, Jessica brings lived experience and cultural grounding to her work advancing resilient communities. Raised on a small family farm in the Pacific Northwest and now based in the Sierra foothills of California, she remains deeply committed to strengthening the relationship between people and the land for long-term resiliency.
