Board of Directors

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Board Chair

Carrie is an educator, researcher, and community leader. She is the founder of a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering teachers, schools, and communities to grow school gardens that enhance science education, nurture wellness, and foster environmental literacy. She teaches pre-service teachers to embrace science in the K-5 classroom and coaches bilingual teachers at an environmental science magnet school. She most directly supports watershed education as an evaluator for the Salmon to Sanctuary program offered by the Napa County Resource Conservation District. She lives in the Napa River Watershed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Treasurer

Eric considers the oyster on a daily basis as the Purchasing Manager for Waterbar, a popular San Francisco seafood house with a meticulous commitment to sustainability. In addition to working with food for almost two decades, he spent several years providing marketing and development assistance to the San Diego Humane Society and the Museum of Making Music in Carlsbad, CA. Eric lives with his dog & chickens in the Schoolhouse Creek Watershed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Secretary

Jeannie Kohl is a National Board Certified educator who has worked with Oakland students and teachers for 28 years. She taught in elementary and middle public school classrooms and in pre service teacher programs at Holy Names and St Mary’s Colleges. Currently she supports curriculum and instruction in History/Social Science for the Oakland school district and serves as a Teacher Consultant for the Bay Area Writing Project. Jeannie comes to the Watershed Project by way of her interest in the history of the relationship between humans and the natural world, and the fostering of civic engagement for students. She lives in Berkeley with her family.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

These days Dan can often be found underwater in California's kelp forests where he manages a citizen science program focused on assessing the health of the nearshore environment.   His involvement in the environmental issues began with a stint working with Greenpeace and continued to UC Berkeley where he studied Environmental Economics and Policy, a program focused on both scientific and economic aspects of the marine environment.  Since then Dan has overseen a large number of marine monitoring projects in San Francisco Bay, the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and along the California Coast. Dan currently lives in the Wildcat Canyon Watershed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nancy is a practicing attorney admitted to the State Bar of California and serves as the Chief Campus Counsel for the University of California Santa Barbara campus. Ms. Hamill has a B.A. from the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) and a J.D. from Southwestern University School of Law. Ms. Hamill is committed to public education and community service as demonstrated by her volunteer work with Thousand Oaks Berkeley Unified School District and the United Way’s Koko Committee, and participation in the annual Coastal Clean Up activities. She lives in the Strawberry Creek Watershed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Derek is an ecologist who has worked for 25 years in the public, private, non-profit, and tribal sectors managing large restoration and urban greening projects from conception through implementation, currently as a Senior Environmental Project Manager with Surf to Snow ERM, Inc. He was the Greening Urban Watersheds Program Manager at TWP from 2013-2015, engaged in some of the most meaningful work of his career. Derek has conducted watershed assessments and restoration planning and implementation in the Yuba, San Joaquin, and Napa River Watersheds as well as numerous streams in the Bay Area. He lives in the Courtland Creek Watershed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paul is a Senior Scientist at EOA Inc. with over 15 years of experience working on NPDES permitting, water quality monitoring, and watershed assessments for storm-water programs in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has extensive experience in developing monitoring plans and using established protocols to conduct field studies, including biological assessments, aquatic habitat surveys, riparian assessments, and water quality studies in San Francisco Bay watersheds. Paul has managed many projects to investigate potential sources of pollutants and to evaluate impacts to health of aquatic biota and beneficial uses. He lives in the Strawberry Creek Watershed.