Carlie Henneman 

is the Water Program Director at the Walker Basin Conservancy where she works to restore Walker Lake while promoting recreational, agricultural, and environmental interests in the Basin. Carlie has worked in conservation for almost 20 years as an ecologist and conservation scientist. She obtained an undergraduate degree in Biology from Whitman College in Washington State, and an M.S. in Wildlife Conservation from University of Minnesota. She has been with the Conservancy since 2017 and loves all the messy, complicated aspects of working with water in the West.