Fall Keynote Speaker!!!
We are very excited to announce that Kate Gasner will be the keynote speaker at the conference. At the age of 23, Kate has done a lot and she is excited to share her passion about the promising and pressing opportunities in better managing our water resources. Kate recently graduated from Yale University where she studied Environmental Engineering and led environmental advocacy groups on campus. As director of the Student Taskforce for Environmental Partnership, she implemented campus-wide campaigns for energy conservation and waste reduction while raising awareness of environmental issues as a priority for the University.
As co-chair of the Yale Student Environmental Coalition, she worked to inspire student environmental advocacy and create community around environmental interests.Water resource issues have captivated Kate’s interest since high school. At Yale, her studies focused on water quality, culminating in a study to demonstrate how a treatment plant policy loophole affected river water quality in Connecticut. In 2008, Kate was a Sustainability Exchange Fellow at the University of Copenhagen and then a research assistant at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, studying the effects of river restoration on ground water dynamics.
Since graduating, Kate worked with The Artemis Project to rate the best water technology businesses. She is currently planning the upcoming Water Energy Nexus prize for ImagineH2O, an organization that works to stimulate and support innovation in water.
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