Jennifer Pitt
Director, Colorado River Project Director, National Audubon Society. As a Colorado River policy expert with decades of experience, Jennifer Pitt leads the National Audubon Society’s advocacy in support of healthy rivers in the Colorado River Basin. Pitt helped orchestrate Minute 319 – the binational water agreement between the U.S. and Mexico while serving as Colorado River Project Director for the Environmental Defense Fund. She can speak to the agreement-making process and provide a Basin-wide perspective on delta restoration. Media Contact: Joey Kahn, joey.kahn@audubon.org.
Carlos de la Parra
Founding Partner at Luken Center; Board Chair of Restauremos el Colorado. An academic with over 30 years of experience studying water and environmental issues along the Mexico-United States border, de la Parra is a civil engineer with a doctorate in Environmental Planning from the University of Michigan. He chairs Restauremos el Colorado, a civil association operating in Mexicali focused on water management for ecosystem restoration, and is a member of the Board of Directors of the North American Development Bank (NADB) as a representative of Mexican civil society. He can speak to the agreement-making process and provide regional perspectives on delta restoration. Media Contact: Bertha Alicia Sandoval, basanfra@restauremoselcolorado.org.
Francisco Zamora
Senior Director of Programs, Sonoran Institute. Francisco Zamora Arroyo joined the Sonoran Institute in April 2002 to manage activities in the Delta of the Colorado River. Dr. Zamora has more than fourteen years of experience working in the Delta as a researcher and project manager. As the senior director of programs, he is responsible for integrating community stewardship, applied science, and local values in an alliance to reform water policy, conserve and restore priority areas, and build knowledge and capacity for collaboration between water managers and local leaders. He spends a good portion of his time in the field working with communities, visiting potential restoration areas, and doing field research and restoration work.
Edgar Carrera
Colorado River Delta Coordinator, Colorado River Program, The Nature Conservancy. As the Colorado River Delta Coordinator, Carrera works to develop basin-wide strategies to improve the health of the Colorado River Delta. Carrera oversees The Nature Conservancy’s work in the Colorado River Delta in Mexico. Carrera can speak to what restoring the delta means for the regional river system and how it benefits nature and people. Media Contact: Daniela Nunoz, dnunez@tnc.org.
Osvel Hinojosa
Director, Coastal Solutions Fellows Program, Cornell Lab. Hinojosa directs the Coastal Solutions Fellows Program at the Cornell Lab, with the main goal to build conservation capacity along the Pacific coast from Mexico to Chile for communities and shorebirds. For 18 years, he worked with Pronatura Noroeste to restore the Colorado River delta, including the recovery of river flows and the facilitation of binational negotiations between Mexico and the US for the sustainability of the Colorado River Basin. Hinojosa provides a unique scientific and Mexican perspective on delta restoration. Media Contact: Lynne Bairstow, lbairstow@redfordcenter.org.