lcw 2023 guests & presenters:

Michael Ableman
Author of ‘Fields of Plenty’
Sole Food Street Farms


Eileen Alduenda
Council for Watershed Health

Mike Antos
California Data Water Consortium

Anecita Agustinez
Department of Water Resources
Tribal Policy Advisor

Shahab Araghinejad
Division of Water Rights, State Water Resources Control Board

Sebastian Bertsch
Sherwood Engineers

Elea Becker Lowe
Senior Planner, CA Governor’s Office of Planning & Research

Dore Bietz
Northern & Southern Me-Wuk, Tuolumne Me-Wuk Tribal Council

Jerry Bird
United States Forest Service

Keali’i Bright
Department of Conservation

Noa Bruhis
Environmental Defense Fund

Brent Buckman
Hyphae Design Laboratory

Rebecca Burgess
Fibershed

Mary Burke
California Trout

Itzel Castillo Flores Wang
Promesa Boyle Heights

Joshua Cox
Resilience Force

Liz Crosson
Sustainability, Resilience & Innovation Office,
Metropolitan Water District of Southern California

Connor David DeVane
Resilience & Just Transition Coordinator, North Bay Jobs with Justice

Martha Davis
Mono Lake Committee 

Susana De Anda
Community Water Center

Sandra De Leon
North Bay Jobs with Justice

Craig Dremann
EcoSeeds

Charlotte Ely
Climate & Strategy Advisor, State Water Resources Control Board

Brian Epstein
Watershed Benefits Director, Watershed Progressive

Santiago Escruceria
Mono Lake Committee

Scott Gelfand
Friends of Berkeley Camp

Gabriel Gutiérrez
Professor of Chicano/a Studies,
California State University, Northridge

Lacey Hankin
US Forest Service

Aaron Haiman
Wildlife Conservation Board

Meredith Hardy
California Conservation Corp


Brandon Harrell
Office of Planning & Research


Trathen Heckman
Daily Acts Organization

Michael Hogan
Integrated Environmental Restoration Services

Shelton Johnston
Yosemite National Park

Jim Junette
Groveland District Ranger, US Forest Service

Mark Kenegos
GIS Analyst, Watershed Progressive

Tim Kuhn
Hydro-ecologist, Yosemite National Park

Jason Kuiken
Forest Supervisor, Stanislaus National Forest 

Bill Leonard
Southern Sierra Miwuk Nation

Erica Maceda
Executive Director, River in Action 

Linda Macelewee
Mendocino Resource Conservation District

Connor Macgee
Climate Science Alliance

Morgan Margulies
Daily Acts Land Resilience Partnership

Azeneth Martinez
Nature for All

Monica Matthews
Ventura Resource Conservation District

Adam Mazurkiewicz
San Francisco Public Utilities Commission

David McConville & Dawn Danby
Co-Founders, Spherical Studio

Candice Meneghin
Friends of the Santa Clara River

Emily Nye
Ventura Resource Conservation District

Dennis O’Connor
CA Senate Committee on Natural Resources and Water (retired)

Shreya Ramachandran
Stanford Water Project
The Greywater Project

Jen Rice
Consulting Catalyst

Elena Rios
Santa Ynez Chumash

Allegra Roth
Rincon Consultants

Briana Schaefer
Daily Acts Land Resilience Partnership

Paul Shipman
Department of Water Resources

Julie Tumamait-Stenslie
Barbareño/Ventureño Band of Mission Indians (Chumash)

Brian Wallace
(Washoe/Nisenan)
Lizzie Enos Nisenan Family Foundation


Bob Wilkinson
University of California, Santa Barbara

Adam Bulla Zamastil
Headwaters Initiative Program

Amanda Zeidner
Project Manager for Community Planning,
Council for Watershed Health

SWRCB
Streamflow Unit (tbd)