Kathleen Alexander

City Forester, City of Boulder

Kathleen Alexander is the City Forester for Boulder, Colorado, and has been with the city for 25 years. She received her B.S. in Forest Biology and M.S. in Forest Management from Colorado State University. Kathleen serves as co-chair of the Emerging Pests in Colorado (EPIC) committee and was instrumental in the establishment of the Colorado EAB Response Team. She collaborated with CSU on the first detection and identification of both Thousand Cankers disease of walnut and drippy blight disease of red oak, and her team was the first to detect EAB in the western U.S.

She was invited to present on behalf of EPIC at the 2018 conference, “Preparing Europe for the EAB invasion”, in Vienna, Austria. In 2014, the Rocky Mountain Chapter of ISA named Kathleen their Arborist of the Year, and in 2017 the Society of Municipal Arborists honored her with their Award of Achievement for her work with forest pest management in urban environments.