Dr. Agarwal’s work focuses on development of tools to improve data usability, accessibility, and sharing in the eco-sciences. She leads several teams developing advanced cyber infrastructure to support collaborative data analysis and stewardship. Read more
Mike is a Senior Integrated Water Management Specialist at Stantec Consulting, a visiting scholar in Anthropology at University of California, Irvine, and a fellow of the Robert & Patricia Switzer Foundation. He brings eighteen years of watershed management experience to interagency and interdisciplinary planning, research, and implementation efforts, focusing on facilitation and meaningful involvement of […] Read more
Drew Atwater is the Manager of Rates, Charges, and Financial Planning at Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. Drew has over ten years’ experience managing finance, water efficiency, and water resource planning functions in the water sector. Read more
Christina Babbitt manages the California Groundwater Program at Environmental Defense Fund, where she is working to advance water trading policy in California and scale replicable groundwater sustainability projects across California’s Central Valley. In these efforts, Christina focuses on building partnerships among NGOs, agencies, water districts, and agricultural partners in ways that enhance collective impact. Read more
Joy Bonaguro has spent her career working at the nexus of data, technology, design and policy. Joy was recently appointed as Chief Data Officer of the State of California with an overarching goal to improve government use of data. Read more
Martha Davis retired in late 2017 from her position as Assistant General Manager/Executive Manager for Policy Development at the Inland Empire Utilities Agency (IEUA), a municipal water water district serving 850,000 people in western San Bernardino County. During her 17 year tenure, Ms. Davis led many of the Agency’s award-winning planning and green programs including […] Read more
E. Joaquin Esquivel was appointed to the State Water Resources Control Board by Governor Jerry Brown in March 2017 and designated by Governor Gavin Newsom as Chair in February 2019. Read more
David Harris serves as the Enterprise Chief Data Officer for the California Natural Resources Agency where he supports cross-departmental teams in the development of data management and decision support systems. As part of these duties he’s provided consultation and systems development services to the team implementing the Open and Transparent Water Data Act, AB1755. David […] Read more
Nick Martorano has worked at the State Water Resources Control Board for over thirteen years. Nick is an environmental program manager within the Office of Information, Management, and Analysis as the Director of the California Water Quality Monitoring Council (Council). Read more
Christina McCready is a Principal Engineer with the California Department of Water Resources (DWR), where she manages the Technical Support and Integrated Data Branch of the Division of Planning. She believes that making water and ecological data accessible on a statewide integrated data platform will benefit the state’s people by providing water management decision-makers and […] Read more