Marcy Harrington Manager Pacific Northwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences University of Washington Box 357234 Seattle, WA 98195-7234 Contact: (206) 685-8962, marcyw@u.washington.edu

Education

1995 BA University of Washington (Forestry/Wildlife Sciences)
2001 MPA University of Washington (Public Affairs)

Ms. Harrington is the Manager for the Pacific Northwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center. Her responsibilities include all aspects of center operations, with an emphasis on grant and fiscal management, reporting, planning, and education and communication activities. Ms. Harrington has served the Center since 1997 in administrative and communications positions and currently sits on the PNASH Internal Advisory Committee and the Outreach Committee for the UW Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences.

Ms. Harrington has experience and a special interest in strategic planning, participatory processes, evaluation methods, event management, and the translation and transfer of research. She has worked with the Northwest farming, fishing and forestry industries to identify regional, stakeholder, issues and priorities, and as a product of these efforts, developed the Occupational Research Agenda for Northwest Farming and the Occupational Research Agenda for Northwest Forestlands.

She has served as the lead coordinator on several events: the University of British Columbia and University of Washington Environmental and Occupational Health Conference in 1998, the Farm Summit in 1998, the Pacific Northwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center’s Investigator Forum in 1999, the Forest Safety Workshop in 2000, and Western Regional Agricultural Safety and Health Conferences in 2002, 2004, and 2008.