Kimery Wiltshire – President & CEO 

Kimery has over 20 years of director- and executive-level work in the American West – with water supply utilities, NGOs, community leaders, businesses, and public agencies. She brings a depth of experience building success around innovative, equitable, and sustainable responses to water crises as the climate rapidly changes in the American West.

A born and bred daughter of the American West, Kimery has to be reminded that occasionally important things do happen east of the 100th meridian.

Laura Briefer - Board Secretary

Laura Briefer is Director for Salt Lake City Department of Public Utilities (SLCDPU), a municipal water supplier responsible for the provision of drinking water to more than 349,000 people in the Salt Lake Valley of Utah. SLCDPU also manages wastewater and stormwater for Salt Lake City. Ms. Briefer has worked at SLCDPU for seven years, and has 20 years experience in natural resource and environmental professions in the public and private sectors. She has a degree in Environmental Studies from the University of California at Santa Barbara, and a Master of Public Administration from the University of Utah. The headwaters of the Wasatch Mountains provide 60% of Salt Lake City’s water supply. One of Ms. Briefer’s most critical responsibilities is the direction of the protection and management of these watersheds to ensure water resources are protected.

Dr. Holly Hartmann

Holly C. Hartmann is a leader in research related to the development of decision support tools for climate, water, and other resource
management applications. She heads Holly C. Hartmann Consulting, LLC and is Director of Climate Science Applications for Confluence West. She leads cross-project decision support assessment for the Climate Impacts Research Consortium, one of NOAA’s Pacific Northwest RegionalIntegrated Science and Assessment projects, after developing many
decision support tools in more than a decade with CLIMAS, the Southwest RISA. Other ongoing projects address scenario planning for
the National Park Service and climate science applications training for a variety of agencies. Holly is a former chair of NOAA’s Science
Advisory Board and has served on many national climate and hydrology committees.

Marguerite Young

Marguerite is the President of the Board of East Bay Municipal Utilities District (EBMUD), which provides drinking water and wastewater treatment for 1.4 million customers in Alameda and Contra Costa counties. She is the Corporate Responsibility Director and Senior Policy Analyst for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Capital Stewardship Program. Marguerite has been active in water quality and water policy issues for decades. She was co-chair of the CALFED Bay-Delta Program's Water Quality Committee which instigated regional cooperation among water agencies to address drinking water quality issues related to delta water supplies. As California Director of Clean Water Action her work also included service as an appointed member of California’s Source Water Assessment Advisory Committee, the EPA Federal Advisory Committee on the Multiple Disinfection By-product Rule, and California’s Recycled Water Task Force. She serves on the Board of Directors of Clean Water Action and Confluence West.