Dr. Jamie Johnson is an applied urban anthropologist and Senior Lecturer at the University of North Texas. Since 2015, Dr. Johnson has combined her scholarship and teaching by collaborating with municipal and organizational stakeholders and training teams of young professionals to solve complex “real world” problems. Her specialties include designing ethnographic research studies that center stakeholder concerns and elucidate participant understandings of built environments, infrastructure, and resource conservation. While at UNT, Dr. Johnson has partnered with the North Texas Municipal Water Department (NTMWD) to inform and assist their Education and Outreach team with natural resource conservation efforts in affluent Dallas suburbs. Her most recent collaborations with the Lone Star Chapter of SWANA utilize mixed-method, multi-sited strategies to examine Texan’s solid waste and recycling practices and identify cultural barriers and incentives for reducing recycling contamination.