Former Interior Department policy honcho Jacob Malcom is now scouting out new ways to buck up a battered agency.
A onetime Defenders of Wildlife staffer who also served as director of Interior’s Office of Policy Analysis, Malcom is driving a venture he calls Next Interior. It’s an ambitious idea that is only now moving beyond the gleam-in-the-eye stage.
“We get so much from Interior,” Malcom said in an interview Tuesday. “Next Interior is going to be an opportunity to give back and support the institution that needs it, and help make it be all that it can be.”
Malcom describes Next Interior as a “place to imagine and advocate for the next iteration” of the sprawling department. He says it will communicate Interior’s importance to policymakers and the general public and policymakers as well as “build partnerships” with other nonprofits, businesses and stakeholders that have a stake in the department’s future.
