Many thanks to the Summit Advisory Committee: 

• Anecita Agustinez, DWR
• Anne Bremer, The Watershed Project
• Emily Ontiveros, CivicSpark / DWR
• Holly Alpert, California Rural Water Association
• Jackie McCloud, City of Watsonville
• Jodie Monaghan, IRWM Roundtable of Regions
• Mark Stadler, IRWM Roundtable of Regions
• Martha Camacho Rodriguez, Social Eco Education-Los Angeles
• Mike Antos, Stantec
• Regina Houchin, Ag-Center
• Sonia Sanchez, Self-Help Enterprises

Summit Staff 

Santa Ana Watershed Project Authority

• Bailey Lai
• Mark Norton
• Rick Whetsel

Local Government Commission 

• Atley Keller
• Danielle Dolan
• Emily Finnegan

Department of Water Resources

• Ashley Gilreath
• Carmel Brown
• Craig Cross
• Marisa Perez-Reyes

Summit Partners

• • California Department of Water Resources (DWR) Integrated Regional Water Management (IRWM) Program
    • A collaborative effort to identify and implement water management solutions on a regional scale that increase regional self-reliance, reduce conflict, and manage water to concurrently achieve social, environmental, and economic objectives. This approach delivers higher value for investments by considering all interests, providing multiple benefits, and working across jurisdictional boundaries.

• • IRWM Disadvantaged Communities and Tribal Involvement Program
    • The Department of Water Resources’s Disadvantaged Community and Tribal Involvement Program is designed to ensure the involvement of  disadvantaged communities, economically distressed areas, or underrepresented communities in Integrated Regional Water Management planning efforts. 

• • IRWM Roundtable of Regions
    • The Roundtable of Regions is a consortium of representatives from Integrated Regional Water Management (IRWM) Regions around the state. The Roundtable provides a forum for interested parties working on IRWM to discuss those interests and to share their successes and challenges. It also provides a forum for collaborating and providing input to the State on the IRWM Program. The Roundtable welcomes all groups who are actively working on developing and/or implementing IRWM Plans.

• • Santa Ana Watershed Project Authority – Disadvantaged Community Involvement Program
    • • The DCI team in the Santa Ana region has collected one-on-one and group interview data through an ethnographically informed process to learn more about the strengths and needs of the 1.7 million members in disadvantaged communities across the Santa Ana River Watershed. After completion, the ethnographic strengths and needs assessment helped to establish priority needs for Technical Assistance dollars to projects across the watershed, and may be further developed to provide a model for pre-planning inclusion, education, and responsiveness on behalf of water agencies.

Emily Finnegan

Water Project Manager

Local Government Commission

efinnegan@lgc.org

916-448-1198 x303

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