About WSN
The network is made up of individuals who completed an intensive cohort experience, our advisory council, partners, and others who share the commitment to practicing sustainable and equitable land and water stewardship.
Meet the Team
Meet our Newest Network Members
To read our newest network member bios, click on each respective name.
Bill Leonard
WSN Cohort 5 Collaboration Team
Network Members
To read our network member bios, click on each respective image.
A.G. Kawamura
WSN Advisory Council
Orange County Produce
Abby Taylor-Silva
Cohort 1
California Agricultural Leadership Foundation
Abigail Hart
Cohort 4
The Nature Conservancy
Adam Borchard
Cohort 2
California Fresh Fruit Association
Adriana Renteria
Cohort 2
CA State Water
Board
Alesandra Najera
Cohort 1
The Water
Foundation
Alexandra Biering
Cohort 4
Allison Harvey
Turner
WSN Advisory
Council Water Foundation
Alydda
Mangelsdorf
Cohort 3
Amy McCoy
Cohort 3
AMP Insights
Amy Witherall
Cohort 3
U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
Anatole Falagan
Cohort 1
Angela Pang
WSN Founding Partner
Coro Northern California
Ankar Bhattacharya
Cohort 4
U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
Ann Hayden
Cohort 1
Environmental Defense Fund
Ann Willis
Cohort 3
UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences
Arian Aghajanzadeh
Cohort 2
Klimate Consulting
Ashley Boren
WSN Advisory Council
Sustainable Conservation
Barry Bedwell
Founding WSN Advisory Council Member
California Agricultural Leadership Foundation
Ben Duval
Cohort 3
Ben Duval
Farms, Inc.
Brian Golding
Cohort 3
Quechan Indian Tribe
Buzz Thompson
WSN Advisory Council
Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
Carl Evers III
Cohort 4
AgIS Capital
Carlos Quintero
Cohort 1
Sweetwater Authority
Carrie Monohan
Cohort 2
The Sierra Fund
Casey Anderson
Cohort 1
Orange County Farm Bureau
Celeste Cantú
WSN Founding Partner
San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board
Charnna Gilmore
Cohort 3
Scott River Watershed Council
Christina Babbitt
Cohort 2
Starbucks
Cindy Tejeda
Cohort 2
US Army Corps of Engineers
Cori Ring-Martinez
Cohort 2
GRID Alternatives
Courtney Young-Law
WSN Founding Partner
Coro Northern California
Crystal Tulley Cordova
Cohort 3
Navajo Nation Department of Water Resources
Cynthia Guzmán
Cohort 1
Estolano Advisors
Daniel Hartwig
Cohort 4
Woolf Enterprises
Danielle Bergstrom
Cohort 4
Fresnoland
Darcy Bostic
Cohort 4
Pacific Institute
Dave Orth
WSN Cohort 4
Collaboration Team
David Orth Consulting, LLC
Dave Puglia
Founding WSN Advisory Council Member
Western Growers
Debbie Franco
Managing Director
Water Solutions Network
Denise Fairchild
WSN Advisory Council
Emerald Cities Collaboratives
Denise Soria
Cohort 2
Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board
Dore Bietz
Cohort 2
WSN Advisory Council
Tuolumne County
Drew Atwater
Cohort 1
Metropolitan Water
District of Southern California
Edgar Tellez Foster
Cohort 1
Chino Basin
Watermaster
Eileen Takata
Cohort 1
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District
Elizabeth Nielsen
Cohort 3
County of Siskiyou
Ellen Wehr
Cohort 1
Grassland Water District
Emmy Cattanni
WSN Cohort 4 Collaboration Team
Cattani Farming
Felicia Marcus
WSN Advisory Council
Stanford University’s Water in the West Program
Fisayo Osibodu
WSN Cohort 3
San Diego Water Quality Control Board
Francisco Zamora
Cohort 3
Sonoran Institute
Frank Ruiz
Cohort 3
Audubon California
Hong Lin
Cohort 2
California Department of Water Resources
James Ferro
Cohort 1
West Yost Associates
Jamie Anderson
Cohort 2
California Department of Water Resources
Jeff Borum
Cohort 4
East Stanislaus Resource Conservation District
Jennifer Nevills
Cohort 2
Metropolitan Water District of Southern California
Jenny Tanphanich
Cohort 1
WSN Advisory Council
Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts
Joel Metzger
Cohort 4
Utica Water and Power Authority
John Cain
Cohort 2
River Partners
Jordi Vásquez
Cohort 2
California Department of Water Resources
Jose Cortez
Cohort 3
Colorado River Water Quality Control Board
Joseph Claverie
WSN Cohort 4
Joe Claverie Farms/Ametza, LLC
Josh Dowell
Cohort 4
Century Ag. LLC
Joya Banerjee
WSN Advisory Council
U.S. Water Alliance
Julie Rentner
Cohort 2
River Partners
Justina Gamboa-Arce
Cohort 3
Imperial Irrigation District
Karen Pope
Cohort 2
USDA Forest Service
Kate McCutcheon
Cohort 3
Vail Ranchez, LLC
Kay Wiand
Cohort 1
USDA Forest Service, San Bernardino National Forest
Kenneth Holbrook
Cohort 2
CA Public Utilities Commission
Laney Whitcanack
WSN Founding Partner
Coro Northern California
Laura Ramos
Cohort 4
California Water Institute at California State University, Fresno
Lauren Steely
Cohort 3
Metropolitan Water District
Lester Snow
WSN Advisory Council
Klamath River Renewal Corporation
Maria Herrera
Cohort 2
USDA State Director of Rural Development for California
Marina Perez
Cohort 4
State Water Resources Control Board
Marta Lugo
Cohort 1
Valley Water
Martha Guzman Aceves
WSN Advisory Council
California Public Utilities Commission
Marybeth Vergara
Cohort 1
San Gabriel and Lower Los Angeles Rivers and Mountains Conservancy
Max Ochoa
Cohort 3
Michael Lynes
Cohort 2
Audubon California
Michael Woo
WSN Founding Advisory Council Member
Retired, College of Environmental Design, Cal Poly Pomona
Michelle Reimers
Cohort 1
Turlock Irrigation District
Morgan Campbell
Cohort 2
Westside Water Authority
Nick Wobbrock
Cohort 2
Blue Forest Conservation
Nnenna Ozobia
WSN Founding Partner
Coro Northern California
Norma J. Camacho
WSN Advisory Council
Retired, Santa Clara Valley Water District
Odin Zackman
WSN Founding Partner
DIG In
Paul Robins
Cohort 1
Resource Conservation
District of Monterey County
Pedro Hernández
Cohort 2
GreenLatinos
Pete Silva
Founding WSN Advisory Council Member
Silva-Silva International
Peter Rietkerk
Cohort 4
South San Joaquin Irrigation District
Rafael Villegas
Cohort 1
Los Angeles Department of Water and Power
Rene Henery
Cohort 1
Trout Unlimited
Ricardo Bayon
Cohort 1
Encourage Capital
Regina Hirsch
WSN Cohort 4 Collaboration Team
Watershed Progressive
Reyn Akiona
Cohort 4
Valley Eco
Rogelio Caudillo
Cohort 4
Eastern Tule Groundwater Sustainability Agency
Roger Cornwell
Cohort 1
Sutter Mutual Water Company
Ryan Flaherty
Cohort 4
Sustainable Conservation
Ryan Jensen
Cohort 4
Community Water Center
Sahara Huazano
Cohort 3
Alianza Coachella Valley
Sammy Genshaw
Cohort 3
Ancestral Guard
Sandi Matsumoto
Cohort 1
The Nature Conservancy
Sarafina Maraschino
Cohort 3
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Scott Seus
Cohort 3
Seus Family Farms
Scott White
Cohort 3
Klamath Drainage District
Shreejita Basu
Cohort 3
Washington State Department of Ecology
Stephen Mejia-Carranza
Cohort 1
Friends of the Los Angeles River
Susana De Anda
WSN Advisory Council
Community Water Center
Vicky Espinoza
Cohort 4
UC Merced
Willie Whittlesey
Cohort 2
Yuba Water Agency
Xerónimo Castñeda
Cohort 4
Audubon California
Zoe Rodriguez del Rey
Cohort 3
Coachella Valley Water District
Founding Partnership
The Water Solutions Network was founded in 2017 by Coro Northern California, DIG IN, and Water Education for Latino Leaders (WELL) with sponsorship from the S. D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation.
The original partnership commitment was to expand the understanding of California’s water management field and increase awareness of the diverse perspectives and goals of water stakeholders.
We believe that collaborative leadership approaches create the most lasting solutions to the challenging issues we face. Giving water leaders the skills, knowledge, and networks to support collaboration and coalition-building is vital to our state's ability to manage for and lead through water extremes including flooding, drought, and fire.
Independently, our organizations have worked for decades to grow the leadership capacity of Californians and to enhance knowledge sharing in a diversity of fields including water management. The Water Solutions Network represents an exciting way to weave our deep experience together in service of California's water future.
Celeste Cantu Consulting
Celeste Cantú serves in a variety of water leadership roles and writes and speaks on 21st Century western water policy and management.
She currently serves on:
San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board as Chair
Water Solutions Network, Design Team
Water Policy Center Advisory Council, Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) Chair
Water Education Foundation, Vice President
The Water Foundation, Vice President
UC President’s Advisory Council for Agriculture and Natural Resources
Master Gardener in Riverside County.
Coro Northern California
Coro Northern California is a nonpartisan, nonprofit focused on helping people work and lead across differences. Since 1947, we have provided more than 11,000 program graduates nationwide with the skills, knowledge, and networks to collaborate and accelerate positive change. Participants in our experiential leadership development programs span sectors, political parties, backgrounds, ages, and geographies.
DIG IN
DIG IN is a Bay Area-based catalyst serving networks, coalitions, communities, and organizations in California and nationally. DIG IN provides a range of tools and techniques for creating healthier places: fostering citizen and institutional awareness of environmental and social equity issues, building effectiveness through leadership training, facilitation, and conflict resolution; and in the design and support of collaborative networks and partnerships focused on systemic change.
Water Education for Latino Leaders
WELL educates local Latino elected officials about California water policy to promote timely and equitable actions that serve to develop a robust economy, healthy communities, and a resilient environment for all Californians.