Katie Burdick has over 25 years experience in the design and implementation of public outreach and involvement programs, federal, state, and local agency interagency coordination, conflict resolution, mediation, consensus building, and meeting facilitation. She has worked for over twenty years with nongovernmental organizations around the country providing both consulting and training on such topics as long-range strategic planning, program planning, foundation and agency grant-writing, board roles and responsibilities, conflict management, and program design and implementation. She has also managed large-scale NEPA and CEQA document preparation, the development of habitat management plans, preparation of General and Specific Plans, and the preparation of site constraints analyses. She has developed classes and seminars on a wide variety of topics for agencies, organizations and businesses throughout the United States.

Liza Prunuske, founding principal of Prunuske Chatham, Inc. (PCI), has been managing community-based resource restoration projects in California since 1981. Liza is a statewide leader in this arena and has extensive experience in developing agreements between landowners and public agencies. She has led planning processes in the Stemple Creek, Walker Creek, Lagunitas Creek, and Sonoma Creek watersheds that have become models for similar programs now underway up and down the California coast. Liza also currently chairs the Sonoma County Open Space Authority. She is a published poet, successful grant writer, and the author of Groundwork: A Handbook For Erosion Control in Northern Coastal California.

Denise Peary Fisher has been an ecologist with PCI since 1990 and has extensive experience with construction supervision and management of ecological restoration projects. She is currently Project Manager for the Students and Teachers Restoring a Watershed (STRAW) Project and the Walker Creek Watershed Enhancement Program. Denise gets projects "on the ground." Her work requires regular interaction with landowners, contractors, students, teachers, clients, RCD’s and regulatory personnel. Once a proposal is funded, Denise takes it through scope of work development, contract execution, third party agreements, cost estimates, scheduling, planning, coordination and ultimately implementation.