Samuel Snyder, Ph.D.

Alaska Senior Campaign Manager for the Wild Salmon Center

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Dr. Snyder is an organizer and a communicator with over a decade of experience leading environment/conservation political campaigns in Alaska. He has worked on state and federal policy campaigns, as well as electoral efforts of ballot measures and campaigns for state legislature.

Building on his academic background and campaign work, Dr. Snyder’s research examines the intersection of public interest communications and community organizing paying particular attention to social movement success and failure; the growth and maintenance of political power; and understanding barriers to basic forms of civic and political life. In addition to his teaching at the University of Florida, he teaches in the Center for Community Engagement and Learning at the University of Alaska – Anchorage.

Dr. Snyder has a PhD from the University of Florida’s Graduate Program on Religion and Nature, a Masters degree from Syracuse University, and a Bachelors from Bucknell University. He lives, works, and plays on the unceded lands of the Dena’ina people (Anchorage, Alaska).