COLLABORATIVE LEADERSHIP PROJECT ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEW: JIM WALDO

About this film

The Collaborative Leadership Project (a project of the University of Washington’s Center for Urban Waters, CUW/Puget Sound Institute, PSI) has conducted and filmed oral history interviews with conveners, sponsors, participants, and practitioners from landmark natural resource collaborations conducted in the state of Washington (WA) since the mid-1970s. The goal of the Project is to capture and document as much insight and as many recollections as possible, before anything else is lost to retirements, fading memories, and other losses; and to archive these digitized oral histories. The original copies are housed in the University of Washington Libraries Special Collections. More information on the Project is available at https://www.pugetsoundinstitute.org/collaboration/collaborative-leadership-project/ . After an education at Whitman College, Jim Waldo became Chair of the College Students for Dan Evans when Evans ran for Governor. He then worked for Governor Evans for a year, went to law school, worked in the US Labor Department, and returned to WA to help the US Attorney implement the Boldt Decision, which affirmed the treaty tribes of WA’s right to harvest salmon, steelhead, and…

Directors & creators

Interviewee: Jim Waldo, Interviewer: Jennifer Huntley, Videographer: Michael Peters

Subjects

Collaborative Governance, American Indian Tribes, Collaboration, Conflict Resolution, Dispute Resolution, Environment, Facilitation, Mediation, Natural Resources, Public Policy, Washington State, Forest and Fish Agreements, Boldt Decision, Chelan Agreement, Puyallup Land Claims dispute

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