1360 North Main Street
Bishop, CA 93514
(760) 873-7854
awilcher@ucanr.edu
Also in:
Inyo-Mono Counties
Biography
Aaron has spent his career leading and supporting multi-stakeholder regional community development partnerships across California and nationally. During his 15-year career, Aaron served as the director of an applied research program for workforce strategy in the Sacramento region’s community college system and as a workforce development program manager in the San Francisco Bay Area community college system. He holds a BA in Spanish from UCLA, an MA in American Studies from Saint Louis University, and an MCP, Community and Economic Development, from UC Berkeley. Aaron is a Certified Economic Research Professional (CERP) from C2ER. He has been a lifelong outdoor recreation enthusiast and rides mountain bikes and skis in the backcountry.
Education
Specialty
Community Economic DevelopmentBibliography
Non-Peer Reviewed
- Qian, Xinyi; Wilcher, Aaron; Savage, Ann; Stewart, Gwynn; Devlin, Kristen (2024). The Outdoor Recreation Economy and Cooperative Extension. National Extension Tourism Network. April 9. https://extensiontourism.net/the-outdoor-recreation-economy-and-cooperative-extension/
- Wilcher, Aaron; Sun, Wen; al., et. (2023). Section 4 Industry and Occupation Cluster Analysis. North Valley Thrive, California Jobs First: Part One Baseline Assessment Report. December 31. https://northvalleythrive.org/PDFs/Baseline-Regional-Assessment-Version-29Jan24.pdf
- Wilcher, Aaron (2022). Can Outdoor Recreation Development Strategies Save Rural California? The GNARly Blog, Utah State University Extension. March 31. https://extension.usu.edu/gnar/gnarly_blog/outdoorrec_california
- Wilcher, Aaron (2022). Chapter 6. Harnessing Community Culture for Resiliency Planning and Recovery Response. California Association for Local Economic Development (CALED) 2022 Economic Development Recovery & Resiliency Playbook. June 27. https://caled.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/220627-CALED-2022-Playbook.pdf