Paul Cummings interviews Alex Keeble-Toll. She is a Senior Admin Analyst with the Nevada County Office of Emergency Services. Alex has two graduate degrees one in sociology and the other in science, Alex’ expertise lies at the nexus of people and the environment. She is specifically interested in identifying how to deploy complex information about risk to rural populations in California’s headwater communities. In her role at the Nevada County Office of Emergency Services she works with residents and leaders across the County to better understand the opportunities and constraints around pursuing wildfire mitigation actions from the individual to the landscape scale and then proactively identifies appropriate funding mechanisms to get the work done on the ground. Alex is also actively involved in the Nevada City Fire Safety Advisory Committee, and she is a mother and avid runner.