On Where and Why Women Are
LEAKING From The Water Career PIPELINE
(Ways to Stop The Leaks
... and Bring Women Back After They Have Left!)
MEET OUR SPEAKERS!
Opening Keynote:
Marcia Brewster
President, United Nations Association-USA, Westchester (NY) Chapter
Lylian Coelho
Development Director, AgroParis Tech-SUEZ "Water For All" Chair (Paris, Ile-de-France, France)
Siyka Radilova MA
Former Senior Project Officer, DEI, International Water Association (London, England, UK
Dahlia Sabri, PhD
Water & Climate Change Consultant, Co-Chair Water Quality Task Force, International Water Resources Association (Cairo, Egypt)
Meghna Mukherjee
Program Manager, MetaMeta (Wageningen, Gelderland, Netherlands)
Nancy Hogshead JD
Olympic Gold Medal Swimmer, Founder, Champion Women, Legal Advocacy For Girls And Women in Sport (Jacksonville, FL, USA)
Amanda Jones, MPA
Tucson Water, Founder, Womxn In Water (Tucson, AZ, USA)
Andrea Odegard-Begay
Senior Associate, Hazen and Sawyer, WateReuse Arizona Executive Board, AZ Water Board of Trustees
(Phoenix, AZ, USA)
Closing Keynote:
Pamela Bingham
STEM DEI Advocate, Operations Manager, UMD Center for Community Engagement, Environmental Justice and Health (Petersburg, VA, USA)
Opening Keynote:
Marcia Armant St.Martin
Executive Director (Retired), Sewerage & Water Board of New Orleans
(New Orleans, LA, USA)
Founder & Chief Consultant, Tai Solutions (Atlanta, GA, USA)
Susan Jacobs-Marshalsea
President at Ms. Fix It LLC, Plumber
(Norwood, MA, USA)
Sierra Taliaferro
Water Conservation Awareness Advocate and Founder, The Green Obsidian, Community Outreach Associate, Environmental Protection Network (Miami-Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA)
Maria Elena (Elena) Rodriguez Hernandez
Water Engineering Director, R&D - Engineering, Ingeteam (Water Sector) (Zarautz, Basque Country, Spain)
Micki Washington, AIA, RID, NOMA, LEED AP
Principal, Regional Leader of WorkPlace at HOK (Houston, TX, USA)
Shannon Bumgarner
Podcast Host, Empowering Women in STEM and Manufacturing Careers (Charlotte, NC, USA)
Candace Freedenberg
Founder/President, Untapped Potential Inc. (New York, NY, USA)
Amanda Livingston, CHMM
Hospital Safety Specialist, Children's Health, Former Wastewater Operator (Denton, TX, USA)
Closing Keynote:
Angela Walker
Compliance Coordinator, Brunswick-Glynn Joint Water & Sewer Commission; Owner/Consultant, Angela G. Walker LLC (St. Simons Island, Georgia, USA)
Opening Keynote:
Liji Thomas, CPA, CIA, CRMA, SHRM-CP
Chief Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Officer, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA, USA)
Emily Soloby, MA, JD
Founder, Juno Jones Safety Boots (Philadelphia, PA, USA)
RIta Schmidt Sudman
Sr Advisor and Former Executive Director, Water Education Foundation (San Diego, CA, USA)
Cindy Lorena Ospina
CEO/NGO Co-Founder, Colectiva Paziflora (Barcelona, Spain)
Ari Copeland
Senior O&M Professional, Black & Veatch; AWWA Director At Large & VP
(San Francisco, CA, USA)
Dr. Beverli A. Marshall, PhD
City Manager, City of Glenwood Springs and Former General Manager (CEO), Valley Sanitary District
(Glenwood Springs, CO, USA)
Anastasia Eagle
Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer, Glanris (Memphis, TN, USA)
Susan Donnelly, PE
East Region Condition Assessment Business Class Lead, HDR (Washington DC-Baltimore, MD, USA)
Jacquie Abram
DEI & Anti-racism Keynote Speaker, Author, Hush Money : How One Woman Proved Systemic Racism In Her Workplace and Kept Her Job(Aurora, CO, USA)
Jacqueline Jarrell
Deputy Director at Charlotte Water, WEF Fellow and Past President (Charlotte, NC, USA)
Erica Brown, PMP
Chief Policy & Strategy Officer, Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies (Washington, DC, USA)
Nicole Brown
Client Development Manager, Suburban Consulting Engineers, Founder SISTEM for Black Women Water Professionals, Co-Founder Black Water Professionals Alliance (Elkins Park, PA, USA)
Brianna Huber
Executive Director Her2O, Director of Water Filtration, City of East Moline (Rock Island, IL, USA)
Stephanie Slocum, PE
Founder and CEO, Engineers Rising LLC (State College, PA, USA)
Portia Ingram, ELI-MP
Mentor Coach at Career Coach Mo Faul (Dallas, TX, USA)
Nicole Calhoun
Owner/CEO, SC Calhoun Coaching & Consulting
(Sachse, TX, USA)
Ana Carolina Coelho Maran, PE, PhD
Chief of District Resiliency, South Florida Water Management District (West Palm Beach, FL, USA)
Marge Bedessem
ASCE Environmental & Water Resources Institute; Sr. Environmental Engineer, Trihydro Corp (Laramie, WY, USA)
Shirley Clark
ASCE Environment and Water Resources Institute President-Elect, Professor of Environmental Engineering at Penn State Harrisburg(Middletown, PA, USA)
Sally Gutierrez
Acting Director, Groundwater Characterization and Restoration Division, Center for Environmental Solutions and Emergency Response, USEPA ORD (Cincinnati, OH, USA)
Liané Thompson
CEO, AquaAI Corporation (California, USA & Norway)
Ann Sullivan
Founder/Strategic Advisor, Madison Services Group, Inc.
(Washington, DC, USA)
Right Honorable Yvonne E. Gamble
CEO/Founder, SanPete Financial Group, Executive Director, Women Leading Change Now (Atlanta, GA, USA)
Camille Hannans
VP Human Resources, Georgia Aquarium (Atlanta, GA, USA)
Carol Fishman Cohen
CEO and Co-Founder, iRelaunch (Miami-Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA)
Jennifer Abman Scott
SVP Society of Women Engineers, Co-Founder/Co-Director STEM ReEntry Task Force (Wilmette, IL, USA)
Julie Lucas
Sr Manager fo Talent Acquisition Programs, CDM Smith (College Recruitment, Reboot Re-Entry) (Boston, MA, USA)
For more than 30 years, DrCat has worked to create education & outreach programs that bring people and organizations together around critical issues such as water, the environment, energy, food, habitat, community development, diversity & equity.
DrCat's background includes degrees in Government (Dartmouth), Geology (North Carolina State), Environmental Science & Engineering/Environmental Management & Policy (UNC-Chapel Hill); Civil Engineering (Colorado State), and Multimedia Journalism (U. Maryland), plus extensive training in Education-Based Marketing and Online Education and Certifications in Coaching, Facilitation, and Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) and Mastermind Development and Facilitation.
In 2012, DrCat founded WaterCitizen to provide affordable, accessible online water news, education, and "WaterTainment(TM)" for "people passionate about water."
Dr. Cat's unique combination of knowledge and skills in science & engineering, public policy & public engagement, communications and community-building enable her to design events that lead to collaborative solutions, building a better world.