Jackson coordinates technical assistance services across priority states and manages other programs including workshops and communications.
Mr. Parr coordinates WFX’s outreach and delivery of technical assistance for communities across the country. He has spent his career at the intersection of water resources and community development, supporting rural communities in achieving safe and sustainable water resources management. After building out WFX’s technical assistance program in the Southeast, he is continuing to support staff in the region while developing WFX’s programming in other regions across the country. He also works on extreme weather preparedness planning with the University of Wisconsin Division of Extension, and was previously a Fellow at Wisconsin Sea Grant within the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he worked with communities on flood resilience planning in coastal Great Lakes cities. Prior to that, he served as a research associate for the North Central Region Water Network and University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Extension, where he helped create a framework for state-level policy interventions to address water quality and quantity challenges in Mississippi River Basin through collaborative watershed governance systems. He was formerly a newspaper editor covering Great Lakes communities in northeast Wisconsin. He holds a Masters in Public Affairs from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s La Follette School of Public Affairs and a Masters in Water Resources Management from the University of Wisconsin Madison’s Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies.
