11:30 AM - 12:30 PM | Opening Keynote
Tanya Trujillo
US Department of Interior Assistant Secretary for Water and Science
Introduced by Ted Kowalski, Senior Program Officer, Colorado River Initiative, Walton Family Foundation
Tanya Trujillo is a water lawyer with more than 20 years of experience working on complex natural resources management issues and interstate and transboundary water agreements. She most recently worked as a project director with the Colorado River Sustainability Campaign. Before then, she served as the Executive Director of the Colorado River Board of California. She has served as Senior Counsel to the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee and as Counselor to the Assistant Secretary for Water and Science at Interior. A native New Mexican, Tanya attended Stanford University and the University of Iowa College of Law.