Join us this Saturday, February 10 at 12pm for our Updates and Perspectives on Delta Projects Webinar. Hear updates on the Delta Conveyance Project, as well the Bay Delta Plan, Voluntary Agreements, and Sites Reservoir. Speakers include Tribal representatives, environmental justice advocates, and conservationists from around the state who will discuss their perspectives on these environmentally destructive projects, and the efforts to stop them.
Featured Speakers:
Time | Topic |
12:00pm | Opening |
12:05pm | Formal Welcome
Charming Evelyn, Co-Chair, Sierra Club California Water Committee
Charming is a long time volunteer and CoChair of the Sierra Club California Water Committee. She is also the Chair of the Angeles Chapter Water Committee and Vice Chair of the Environmental & Social Justice Committee. She serves as the Conservation Liaison to the Outings Management Committee and on the Sierra Club California Executive Committee.
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12:10pm | Updates on Water Projects in the Delta
Caty Wagner, Water Campaign Manager, Sierra Club California
Caty is the Water Campaign Manager for Sierra Club California, where she organizes around the Bay Delta, Colorado River, and the environmental justice communities and ecosystems affected by overconsumption of these sources. She previously worked on progressive elections and campaigns against pesticides, ICE, and police brutality throughout the Central Valley. |
12:30pm | A Shingle Springs perspective on TEK and the Delta Tunnel
Krystal Moreno, TEK Manager, Shingle Springs Rancheria
Krystal manages the Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) program for the Shingle Springs Rancheria Band of Miwok Indians. She uses TEK, the evolving knowledge acquired by indigenous peoples over hundreds or thousands of years through direct contact with the environment, to educate policymakers on California water projects. |
1:00pm | Delta Tunnel Stakeholder Engagement
Gia Moreno, Multicultural Educator, Hood Webmaster, Mother & Teacher
Gia Moreno is a Native American and Chicana who was raised in Hood. She comes from 5 generations of Hood residents on both sides of her family. Her connection to Hood is lifelong. Gia is currently the webmaster and social media contact for Hood, and a representative on the Delta National Heritage Area Planning Committee. She was formerly the representative for Hood on the Delta Conveyance Design and Construction Authority Stakeholder Engagement Committee. In her non-Delta related activities, Gia is a mother of two future Hood residents, a high school ceramics teacher, an artist, and a multicultural educator. |
1:30pm | Break & action- Call into SFPUC to comment on their budget |
1:40pm | Working with the EPA and coalitions on Delta projects
Cintia Cortez, Policy Analyst with Restore the Delta
Cintia graduated from the University of the Pacific in 2022 with a degree in Environmental Science. Cintia joined Restore the Delta as a Climate Water Advocate performing water quality testing and contributed to air quality research. As the policy analyst, she monitors and engages with state and federal agencies for the protection of water quality for communities and tribes. |
2:10pm | The Framework of Power in California Water and the Delta Tunnel
Deirdre Des Jardins, Director, California Water Research
Deirdre Des Jardins has worked with NGO, fishing, tribal and community groups on climate adaptation in the California water sector since 2010. She did scientific research in nonlinear dynamics and complex systems theory at the Center for Nonlinear Studies and the Santa Fe Institute for Complex Systems. She became concerned about the direction of the country and worked as a regional coordinator for MoveOn.org from 2005 to 2009, doing community organizing and movement building. She has found both backgrounds to be helpful in her work on California water. |
2:40pm | Wrap up/End |
