Hannah Jaicks is the NSF Grant Manager for Idaho State University since April 2021. In this role, she supervises professors, graduate students, and postdocs under a National Science Foundation seed grant to build a new multi-university research program and consortium evaluating the impacts of social and environmental change on rural communities.
She has also been the Program Director Future West in Bozeman, Montana since March 2017. Future West explores how communities can lead the way in demonstrating that growth and change if done thoughtfully, can enhance these Western communities, sustain robust economies, and conserve the natural environment.