Jessica Taylor

Jessica Taylor

Board Director

Jessica is a Vancouver-based lawyer committed to environmental stewardship and social justice. She lives and works on the unceded and ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations, and believes environmental advocacy in British Columbia must respect Indigenous knowledge, governance, and relationships to land.

Jessica contributes a significant portion of her professional time to pro bono legal work in support of community organizations and has served on a range of nonprofit boards and committees. Prior to practicing law, she worked as a guide and naturalist, leading ethnobotanical and educational hikes for ten consecutive summers at Cathedral Lakes Lodge in the Cascade Mountains. That experience shaped her appreciation for land-based knowledge systems and the role of intergenerational learning in conservation.

Based in West Vancouver, Jessica spends her summers at her off-grid property just south of Desolation Sound, where daily life reinforces the realities of stewardship, reciprocity, and care for place. An avid hiker and boater—and a self-described clumsy skier—she values spending as much time as possible exploring British Columbia’s mountains, rainforests, and ocean with her six-year-old son, and is motivated by a desire to help protect the province’s lands and waters so future generations may continue to learn from and enjoy them.