Brenda is a seasoned non-profit director, research coordinator and project manager with expertise in leadership development and organizational capacity building. She brings a long-standing commitment to social justice and community organizing to her work on culturally-competent community engagement and public health initiatives. She is happy to discuss Environmental Justice and building a multi-racial anti-racist, muti-cultural […]
Kimbaya Carriere
I am a versatile Indigenous Project Coordinator with a background in successfully executing diverse projects that work towards having Indigenous Peoples across Turtle Island be informed, resourced, united, and recognized to actively exercise governance and jurisdiction on Water. I am currently working closely with multiple First Nations communties in BC and would like to expand […]
Kabir Thatte
Kabir Thatte is the Vice President of Policy and External Relations at DigDeep, overseeing government affairs, public policy, and external affairs portfolios for the nonprofit. He serves as a liaison to Capitol Hill, the executive branch, and as a strategic partner to outside organizations. Kabir plays a pivotal role as a founding member and Executive […]
Diana Piña Yitbarek
I enjoy talking about restoring hydrological and ecological functions of mother earth. Merging technical fields with traditional knowledge. Revitalizing indigenous traditional wisdom and practices to manage water resources (i.e., Relearning to see water and ecosystems as more than a natural resource and honoring perspectives that impact needed behavioral changes.) I am currently an engineer for […]
Tiffany Sevilla
Tiffany leads workforce development and community engagement on community-driven water quality strategies and programs. Her passion flows from her belief in people’s right to clean water. She has a unique blend of experience with direct service to overburdened communities, collaborative strategic planning and environmental management systems. She is a registered Professional Engineer in the state […]
Marccus Hendricks
To date, Marccus has primarily worked to understand how social processes and development patterns create hazardous human-built environments, vulnerable infrastructure, and the related risks in urban stormwater management and flooding. Other work has focused on technological disasters, namely fertilizer explosions, and structural damage assessments and recovery trajectories, as well as cascading events such as wet-weather […]
Benu Amun Ra
Benu Amun-Ra (We/Our/Ours) lives at the intersections of being a single mother, an activist, a BIPOC generational farmer, and seed-keeper, LGBTQ+ community member and has over 32 years’ experience as a primary caregiver for those living with disabilities as well as an end-of-life doula. We believe in advocacy and have worked with organizations that center […]
Priscila Alves
Dr. Alves work focuses on stormwater mitigation with a combination of spatial analysis and community-based participatory research. Her previous work also included developing risk-based spatial-participatory frameworks for flood risk adaptation and mitigation. She developed multiple methodologies for the integrated management of water resources (i.e., NEEDS for ACTION tool) to minimize hazards’ impacts and propose sustainable […]
Lenise Marrero
Lenise has 20 years of professional experience as an Engineer and Water Resources Planner, leading integrated and strategic plans, technical studies and master plans, policy development, community engagement, and interagency coordination. In her former role as a public sector leader, she served as the project and program manager for the award-winning One Water LA Program […]
Frank Ruiz
Frank is a longtime advocate for water with deep expertise on the crisis at the Salton Sea and its affects on wildlife and public health. He was appointed to join the state of California Colorado River Board in 2023 to represent the public and has been a hardworking advocate not only for the more than […]