Water Resources

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Carolina Balazs

2009 Fellow
Carolina is passionate about applying her training in water resource management, environmental justice and public health to community-based research, environmental policy and mission-driven social enterprises. After two decades in the NGO...
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Melissa Nelson

1996 Fellow
Melissa graduated from UC Santa Cruz in 1991 with an honors BA in Integrated Ecology and graduated from UC Davis in 2000 with a Ph.D. in Ecology. For the 28 years, she served as the Executive Director and President of The Cultural...
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Ken Mercer

2006 Fellow
Dr. Kenneth Mercer an engineer and researcher with eighteen years of experience leading or managing projects on various technical, managerial, and financial aspects of the water industry. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of AWWA Water...
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Stephen Wald

2005 Fellow
Steve is director of external communications and government relations for the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Previous positions include government relations and...
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Jessie Levine

2003 Fellow
Jessica Levine is the Conserving Land and Water Strategy Lead for The Nature Conservancy in New England and the Coordinator of the Staying Connected Initiative, a binational landscape connectivity partnership. She serves on the Executive...
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Jessica Davenport

1997 Fellow
Jessica Davenport supports the creation of resilient landscapes for people and nature in the San Francisco Bay Area as Deputy Program Manager for both the California State Coastal Conservancy’s Bay Area Program and the San Francisco Bay Restoration Authority.
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Tim Krupnik

2007 Fellow
Dr. Timothy Krupnik holds the position of Systems Agronomist with the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), based in Bangladesh but with regional duties. He leads a portfolio of applied research and development efforts...
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Alfred Gonzalez

1995 Fellow
Tenured biology instructor at Evergreen Valley College (SJ,CA). My focus has shifted to improving science curricula and facilitating educational achievement for Chicano/Latino and Native American students. Other areas of focus include...
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Hilary Harp Falk

2005 Fellow
Hilary Harp Falk was previously the Regional Executive Director of National Wildlife Federation’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Center. Prior to NWF, she was the Director of the Choose Clean Water Coalition, a 230 member advocacy organization...
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Leonard Sklar

1996 Fellow
Leonard was originally trained as a civil engineer, earning a bachelor's in engineering from Cooper Union and an MS from UC Berkeley. After a year working on creek and wetland restoration projects for Philip Willimas & Associates, Leonard...