Jenna Hammond

Jenna is the Engagement and Innovation Specialist at Private Forests Tasmania where she creates and leads stakeholder engagement opportunities and supports strategic projects primarily aimed at Tasmanian farmers and landowners with or with the potential to pursue forestry opportunities on private land. Prior to this role, Jenna worked at Sustainable Timber Tasmania for over six years, working with regional operations teams to engage stakeholders and develop communications approaches that support sustainable forest management outcomes. Jenna also led the organisation’s ministerial engagement and development of government briefing materials and administered its Right to Information request process. Jenna completed a Bachelor of Media at the University of Tasmania in 2018, majoring in Strategic Communications. Jenna is a trained forest firefighter and Public Information Officer and has worked in Incident Management Teams on campaign bushfires in both Tasmania and New South Wales. Jenna is an active member of Forestry Australia and has been part of the Future Foresters Initiative (FFI) since 2020, and Chair of the Committee since late 2024. In 2023, Jenna was the recipient of the Forestry Australia Prince of Wales Award, recognising outstanding achievement as a young professional in forestry.