Allison Stegner is an ecologist whose research draws on modern, historic, and paleontological records to study how ecosystems respond to environmental change. Allison grew up in Northern California and spent her formative years hiking, camping, rafting, and generally exploring the southwestern US with her conservation-minded family. She completed her Ph.D. in Integrative Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, and spent several years in remote regions of southeastern Utah conducting field work for her dissertation on the Holocene history of Colorado Plateau mammals. She then worked as a BLM resource intern, first to advance STEM education and outreach in Utah’s Grand and San Juan Counties, and then surveying paleontological resources in Bears Ears National Monument. Allison continued on to postdoctoral positions in paleoecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Stanford University. Since then, she has worked as a research scientist at Stanford, with the U.S. Geological Survey in Moab, Utah, and now at Northern Arizona University, where she studies the effects of land use and climate on rangeland ecosystems.