Another successful Water@Wayne with Advisory Board member and program specialist for the US Forest Services, Lisa Perez. Lisa Perez serves as a program specialist with the US Forest Service, Eastern Region. Working as Detroit Urban Connections Coordinator since 2009, she works with partners to  create opportunities to connect urban residents with nature, both in their backyards, neighborhood parks and National Forests.  Prior to this work, she served in the Intermountain Region as Conservation Education Coordinator for the 2002 Olympic Planning Team and Logan Ranger District of the Wasatch Cache National Forest, positions which required many different jobs, some of the most memorable being from writing a movie script for Bill Nye the Science Guy, coordinating an international environmental education awards program, surveying 51 potential wild and scenic rivers, and driving a dump truck.

Join us for the next installment in our Water@Wayne series when Dr April Beisaw will speak about the archaeology of New York City’s watershed  communities on February 21st from 2:30 to 4:00pm.