New Board Member

Water for Humans welcomes Tressie Word.

Tressie works to improve environmental conditions in creative, appropriate and elegant ways. Six years of engineering, four years of construction and fabrication, and a lifetime of artistic endeavors propel her to catalyze broad scale change in global health and sanitation, with style.

Tressie earned her BS in Environmental Resources Engineering in 2002 and her MS in International Development Technology in 2006 from Humboldt State University.

First Board Meeting

On 21 September, 2008, we held our first official Board Meeting. Almost everyone attended, with the others joining via conference call! We mapped out our strategy and launched a committee to begin our fund raising campaign.

Full suite of Board Members

We have now assembled a full suite of Board members and advisers to guide us. We would like to welcome the following members to our Board and advisory Council:

Board Members

Brian C. Setzler, CPA, MBA - Accounting and Finance

James Fox, Ph.D. Founder - Custom, Pure The Water Store

Hector Seaz, Ph.D. Professor - Western Washington University, Political Economics

Jeannette Diaz-Laplante, Ph.D. Professor - Saybrook Graduate School, University of Phoenix, Bainbridge Graduate Institute, Social Justice, Community Development, Research Methodology and Sustainability

Susan Bolton, Ph.D. Professor - University of Washington, Forest Resources Adj. Prof., Civil & Environmental Eng. and School of Fisheries, Center for Water & Watershed Studies, Advisor; Engineers Without Boarders.

April Atwood, Ph.D. Professor - University of Washington, Bainbridge Graduate Institute, Marketing

Craig Nakagawa, MBA Village Reach - Director of Social Enterprise


Advisors

Gifford Pinchot III Founder - Bainbridge Graduate Institute

David Green - Ashoka Fellow

Paul Hudnut, Ph.D., J.D. Professor - Colorado State University & Bainbridge Graduate Institute Professor, Entrepreneurship, Founder – Enviorfit

Jim Poss, MBA Professor - BGI, Entrepreneurship, Founder - BigBelly Solar

Richard Watkins, J.D. Non-profit legal

Sabrina Watkins, MBA - Strategy, Organizational Intelligence

David Stewart Ph.D - P.E. Stewart Engineering Denver, CO - Water treatment systems