Vicky Espinoza

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The Nature Conservancy

Strategic Restoration Project Manager

expertise:

Ecosystems, Food + farming, Groundwater, Racial + environmental justice, Water rights + policies

pronouns: She/Her

state: CA

LGBTQ: NO

Tribal Affiliation: NO

languages: Spanish, English

race + ethnicity: Mexican American, Mexican, or Chicana/o/x, Latina/e/o/x or Hispanic (e.g., Latin American, Central American, South American)

Community and farmer engagement, California water and land use management and policy (e.g., Sustainable Groundwater Management Act and Multibenefit Land Repurposing Program), environmental justice, agriculture in the San Joaquin Valley, drought impacts on small-scale, marginalized farmers, strategic restoration and multi-benefit land repurposing. Feel free to reach out about ways that I am addressing information access inequities among agricutural communities in California through workshops, developing educational resources, and my trilingual (Spanish, Hmong, and English) CaliWaterAg YouTube channel.

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Utilities + infrastructure

Civic Solutions: Elected Officials Are Making Progress on Infrastructure Equity, East Valley Residents Who Lack Safe Drinking Water Say More Needs to Be Done Now – Coachella Valley Independent – Coachella Valley Independent

Many residences aren’t connected to the main water service in the area, managed by the Coachella Valley Water District. Instead, there are at least 100