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Carol K. Lind (Chair)
Tiburon
Nonprofit experience includes: Executive Director and development/fund-raising positions in Southern California and Illinois organizations. Former positions include: Director of Major Gifts, Knox College; Foreman, Marin County Grand Jury 1999-2000; Participant and trainer, Southern California Coro Foundation.

Nick Wilcox (First Vice Chair)
Penn Valley
Chief of Bay-Delta Unit, State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Water Rights (ret.) and Board Representative to the CALFED Operations Group. Former Laboratory Director, Cranmer Engineering Water Analysis Laboratory. Former high school science teacher, John Woolman School and Germantown Friends School.

Steven Machtinger (Second Vice Chair)
Tiburon
Partner, Bingham McCutchen LLP. Former positions include: Associate General Counsel, JPMorgan Chase & Co.; General Counsel for Hambrecht & Quist; and attorney in the enforcement branch of the San Francisco Office of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Board member, The Marin Symphony Association. Violist in the Marin Symphony since 1982.

Karen E. Losee (Secretary)
Novato
Director of Sales and Marketing, Pharmpak, and graduate candidate for Masters in Business Administration in Sustainable Management at the Presidio School of Management. Former positions include: Marketing Programs and Events Manager, IntelliTools, Inc; Events Manager, Kistler Ranch Educational Programs; Development Manager, The Bay Institute of San Francisco. Volunteer affiliations include: Upper Sacramento River Exchange and Granite Bay Flycasters.

Nancy Carlson (Treasurer)
San Francisco
Former positions include: Board Member, Junior League of San Francisco; National Board of Directors, Association of Junior Leagues; President, Sojourn, The Episcopal Chaplaincy at SF General Hospital; Director of Development, Laguna Beach Museum of Art; Director of Nursing, Andrew Harper Community College & Iowa Lutheran Hospital.

Harrison C. Dunning
Davis
Professor of Law Emeritus, UC Davis School of Law. Water law specialist, and top expert in public trust law in California. Former member, California Water Commission. Former Staff Director, Governor's Commission to Review California Water Rights Law.

Robert J. Erickson
Alameda
Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals (ret.). Board member, Planning and Conservation League, Elder Care Alliance, and La Raza Centro Legal.

Michael Law
San Francisco
Managing Director, California, Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide, specializing in crisis management, corporate communications, government relations, and non-governmental organizations and community groups. Former President, Southeast Asia, and Regional Client Director, Asia Pacific, Ogilvy PR. Previously worked with Public Affairs office, Washington D.C., Ogilvy PR; and U.S. Department of Justice.

Morgan Rissel
San Francisco
Associate, Presidio Financial Partners LLC. Former positions include: Financial Advisor and Certified Financial Manager, Merrill Lynch;  Senior Paralegal in Venture Capital Group, Cooley Godward LLP. Community Mayor of Presidio Boulevard, Presidio Trust Community Organization. Co-President, San Francisco Alumni Club, Trinity College.

Nancy Werner
San Francisco
Rehabilitation Counselor, State of California (ret.) Former President of the Board, Sojourn, The Episcopal Chaplaincy at SF General Hospital. Docent, de Young Museum. Other volunteer affiliations include: Project Open Hand, Haight Ashbury Ecumenical Lunch Program, Canon Kip Community Center Literacy Program, Project Homeless Connect.

Arlene Wong
Moraga
Former positions include: Director of Community Strategies for Sustainability and Justice Program, Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security; Environmental Careers Organization, on outreach assignment for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Radon Division; Program Officer, The Asia Foundation, Center for Asian Pacific Affairs. Community Board Member, Northern California Grassroots Fund; Board Member, Friends of the River; Steering Committee Member, California Urban Water Conservation Council.