Letitia Grenier is director of the PPIC Water Policy Center, where she is also a senior fellow and holds the Ellen Hanak Chair in Water Policy. She previously directed the Resilient Landscapes Program of the San Francisco Estuary Institute. Throughout her career, she has worked with partners to conserve California’s resources by developing landscape-scale, collaborative visions and solutions. She’s been a leader in science-based management, served as a resource for local and national media, and advised government and agency staff. In 2020, Letitia was the PPIC CalTrout Ecosystem Fellow, for which she completed a report on smarter permitting for restoration of freshwater ecosystems, and she was also an adjunct fellow with the PPIC Water Policy Center. In 2015 and 2019, she served as the science lead for the State of Our Estuary report, and she was also the science lead for the 2015 update to the Baylands Ecosystem Habitat Goals, heading a team of over 200 environmental scientists, managers, and regulators to develop recommendations for managing San Francisco Bay’s wetlands in the face of rising sea levels. She completed her PhD at the University of California, Berkeley.

Jennifer Harder was a 2023–24 PPIC-CalTrout Ecosystem Fellow and is an adjunct fellow at the PPIC Water Policy Center. She is a professor at University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento, where she teaches courses in water, environmental, and administrative law. She also serves as co-director of McGeorge’s water & environmental law concentration and as McGeorge’s faculty director for online learning. Professor Harder is coauthor of the water law textbook, Cases and Materials on Water Law, 10th ed. Her work focuses on the integration of classic water rights principles into contemporary regulatory systems, drought management, and issues of water justice. From 1999-2008, Professor Harder was an attorney and partner at a private firm in Sacramento, where she practiced water rights and environmental compliance, and served as general counsel to public agencies. Professor Harder is an advisor to the Executive Committee for the Environmental Law Section at the California Lawyers Association, editor-in-chief of Environmental Law News, and a judge for the California Water Law Writing Prize. Professor Harder is also a proud graduate of the Water Leaders program at the Water Education Foundation.

Jeffrey Mount is a senior fellow at the PPIC Water Policy Center. He is an emeritus professor of earth and planetary sciences and founding director of the Center for Watershed Sciences at the University of California, Davis. A geomorphologist who specializes in the study of rivers, streams, and wetlands, his research focuses on integrated water resource management, flood management, and improving aquatic ecosystem health. He has served on many state and federal boards and commissions that address water resource management issues in the West. He has published more than a hundred articles, books, and other publications, including the seminal book California Rivers and Streams (UC Press). He holds a PhD and MS in earth sciences from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Ted Sommer was a 2023–24 PPIC-CalTrout Ecosystem Fellow and is an adjunct fellow at the PPIC Water Policy Center. In 2021, he retired as lead scientist for California Department of Water Resources, an organization with more than 3,000 employees statewide. During his 30-plus-year career, his research focused on the development of management solutions to California’s natural resources problems. His projects included work in the state’s waterways, particularly the San Francisco Estuary and its watershed. Since 2000, he has published more than 70 scientific papers, several of which have been used as the basis for improved management of native aquatic species in California. He holds a PhD and master’s degree in ecology from the University of California, Davis and a bachelor’s degree in aquatic biology from the University of California, Santa Barbara.