Environmental Speaker Series Presents: Exploring the Entwined Lives of Southern Resident Killer Whales

Jessica Plumb is an award-winning filmmaker and writer known for exploring the relationship between people, and the land and waters that sustain us. She is the Producer and Co-Director of the feature documentary Return of the River, chronicling Elwha River restoration, a film recognized with numerous awards including “Best Storytelling” by the International Wildlife Film Festival, and “Best Writing” in science media. Collectively her films have appeared in over 50 film festivals and garnered over 20 awards. Her recent work includes a trilogy of short films addressing the shared extinction threat facing Southern Resident Killer Whales and Chinook salmon in the Salish Sea. Plumb Productions produces films on environmental topics for clients including HHMI Tangled Bank Studios, Nat Geo Learning, the Stanford Program on Water, Health & Development, the Clean Energy Transition Institute, Original Pursuit Inc. and numerous non-profit institutions. Her writing can be seen in the Best American Science & Media Writing, 2022, Orion Magazine and other publications. She holds a B.A. from Yale University, an interdisciplinary MFA from Goddard College, and was recently a Fellow of the Salish Sea Institute at Western Washington University. For more please see www.plumbproductions.com.