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Water@Michigan Leadership

Water@Michigan Leadership

Water@Michigan is led by a multi-sector and multi-disciplinary steering committee with facilitation support by Mike Shriberg with the University of Michigan Water Center and School for Environment and Sustainability and Lauren Mullenbach at Michigan Sea Grant and the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability.


Steering Committee

The Water@Michigan Steering Committee is composed of U-M faculty and staff representing a wide range of schools, colleges, and disciplines, as well as water practitioners from local, state, and federal governments, and NGOs who are engaged in community-centered work.

Kelsey Campana

Kelsey Campana

Graduate Student, School for Environment and Sustainability

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Kelsey Campana

Expertise: Groundwater and watershed management, environmental compliance, ecological fieldwork, and community-based environmental stewardship.

Liesl Clark

Liesl Clark

Director, Climate Action Engagement, School for Environment and Sustainability

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Liesl Clark

Expertise: Linking U-M’s sustainability research, collaborations, and engagement with external partners to accelerate climate action across Michigan. See Liesl’s bio on the SEAS website.

Anya Dale

Anya Dale

Manager, Sustainable Systems and Waste Reduction, U-M Office of Campus Sustainability

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Anya Dale

Expertise: Sustainability program and policy development, waste programs and evaluation, community engagement, education, and outreach.

Brian Ellis

Brian Ellis

Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Brian Ellis

Expertise: Sustainable and sefe development of emerging energy technologies including: geologic storage of CO2 and large-scale hydraulic fracturing of unconventional oil/gas reservoirs. See Brian’s bio on the Civil and Environmental Engineering website.

Ayumi Fujisaki-Manome

Ayumi Fujisaki-Manome

Associate Research Scientist, CIGLR

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Ayumi Fujisaki-Manome

Expertise: Predictability of hazardous weather, ice, and lake/ocean events in cold regions, resilience in coastal communities, impacts of interactions between ice and oceans/ice and lakes on larger-scale phenomena, such as weather, storm surges, and sea/lake ice melting, numerical geophysical modeling. See Ayumi’s bio at the School for Environment and Sustainability's website.

Marc Gaden

Marc Gaden

Executive Secretary, Great Lakes Fishery Commission / PiTE

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Marc Gaden

Expertise: Dr. Gaden's research interests include the human dimensions of natural resource management; cross-border conflict; governance, agreements, regimes, and institutions to address conflict; collaborative management; natural resource politics and policy; and environmental history. See Marc’s bio at the School for Environment and Sustainability's website.

Jenna Jorns

Jenna Jorns

Co-Director, GLISA at the School for Environment and Sustainability

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Jenna Jorns

Expertise: Long-term strategic leadership, coordination of interdisciplinary research, grantmaking, energy efficiency, and clean energy initiatives. See Jenna's bio on the GLISA website.

Devin Judge-Lord

Devin Judge-Lord

Assistant Professor, U-M Ford School of Public Policy

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Devin Judge-Lord

Expertise: He works at the intersection of social movements and technocratic policymaking, studying interactions among interest groups, legislators, and bureaucracies. His current work focuses on how public pressure campaigns affect agency rulemaking, especially climate and environmental justice campaigns. See Devin's bio on the Ford School website.

Joe Lange

Joe Lange

Senior Analyst, Energy, City of Ann Arbor

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Joe Lange

Expertise: Designing, implementing and developing energy focused programs.

Sarah Lee

Sarah Lee

Clean Energy Engagement Specialist, Center for EmPowering Communities, Graham Sustainability Institute

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Sarah Lee

Expertise: Facilitating stakeholder engagement and student learning opportunities around sustainability priorities. See Sarah’s bio on the Graham Sustainability Institute's website.

Johanna Mathieu

Johanna Mathieu

Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Director, IES, College of Engineering

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Josh Miller

Josh Miller

Director of Programs, Great Lakes Commission

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Sarah Miller

Sarah Miller

Collaborative Research Specialist, Graham Sustainability Institute, U-M Water Center
Water@Michigan Collaboration Lead

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Sarah Miller

Expertise: Facilitating collaborative efforts, designing/supporting educational programming and workshop development. See Sarah’s bio on the Graham Sustainability Institute website.

Lauren Mullenbach

Lauren Mullenbach

Assistant Research Scientist, Michigan Sea Grant and SEAS, and Co-Chair, Water@Michigan

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Evan Pratt

Evan Pratt

Previous Water Resources Commissioner, Washtenaw County

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Evan Pratt

Expertise: Water quality and quantity management, including implementation, funding, financing, and public policy. As a steering committee member, Evan brings his knowledge and practical experience in building custom, non-academic stakeholder engagement plans to the group. See Evan’s bio on the Washtenaw County Water Resources Commissioner website.

Elizabeth Riggs

Elizabeth Riggs

Great Lakes Regional Director, American Rivers

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Elizabeth Riggs

Expertise: Building relationships with partners to drive natural resource, environmental, and water-related policy efforts.

Mike Shriberg

Mike Shriberg

Director, U-M Water Center, Professor of Practice & Engagement (SEAS), and Co-Chair, Water@Michigan

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Mike Shriberg

Expertise: Great Lakes water policy, clean drinking water provision and building diverse coalitions; campus sustainability leadership and organizational change. See Mike’s bio on the School for Environment and Sustainability's website.

Selena Smith

Selena Smith

Associate Professor, U-M Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences

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Selena Smith

Expertise: Plant systematics and anatomy, paleobotany, taphonomy, role of plants in ancient environments. See Selena's bio on the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts website.

Parth Vaishnav

Parth Vaishnav

Assistant Professor, School for Environment and Sustainability

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Parth Vaishnav

Expertise: Quantitative decision analysis, technology in solving societal problems, decarbonization strategies, equity considerations of electrification. See Parth’s bio on the School for Environment and Sustainability's website.

Dave Waterhouse

Dave Waterhouse

Associate Director, The Edward Ginsberg Center

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Dave Waterhouse

Expertise: Building sustainable infrastructure for equitable campus-community partnerships, staff development, increasing student learning, and building authentic relationships with community partners that lead to positive results. See Dave’s bio on the Ginsberg Center’s website.