Kelsey Winter
Manager Wildfire Operations at FPInnovations
Kelsey Winter is the mother of three young girls and her and her husband are grateful to be able to raise their family on the traditional lands of the lək̓ʷəŋən Peoples, today known as the Esquimalt and Songhees Nations. She is the Manager of Wildfire Operations Research at FPInnovations, a national not-for-profit that specializes in creating solutions that accelerate the growth of the Canadian forest sector. Winter’s team utilizes operations research projects and empirical evidence to assist wildfire agency partners in increasing their positive impacts in the wildfire management ecosystem. She has a background in Natural Resources, Fire Ecology and Fire Management and before FPInnovations worked for the British Columbia Wildfire Service for over a decade.
