The Center for Water Policy is excited to welcome Anna Watson and Emilie Washer, who make up the Center’s fifth cohort of postdoctoral water policy specialists through the Sea Grant UW Water Science-Policy Fellows Program. Will Matuska also joins the Center as its third Water Policy and Science Communications Fellow.
“We’re excited to have Anna, Emilie, and Will on board to help strengthen our water policy research and deepen our ability to protect our shared water resources,” said Melissa Scanlan, Director of the Center and the Lynde B. Uihlein Endowed Chair and Professor in water policy at UW-Milwaukee’s School of Freshwater Sciences.
Over the coming year, Emilie and Anna will conduct original legal research and collaborate with the Center’s external partners to examine U.S. water challenges, assess policy alternatives, and support decision makers. This fellowship offers recent law school graduates valuable experience in academic research and development of water policy.
Anna holds a Juris Doctorate from Washington University School of Law. While pursuing her degree, she also worked at the EPA’s Office of General Council, and Great Rivers Environmental Law Center. She’ll coordinate the Freshwater Collaborative of Wisconsin Water Policy Network and perform law research at the Center.
Emilie earned her Juris Doctorate from Lewis & Clark Law School with certificates in Environmental & Natural Resources Law and Animal Law. She has prior work experience at the Natural Resources Defense Council, Waitt Institute, and working as a submissions editor for Environmental Law. At the Center, she’ll focus on solutions to emerging water challenges in the Great Lakes region like the development of data centers.
Will is pursuing his Master of Science in the School of Freshwater Science’s water policy thesis track after graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in environmental studies from Saint John’s University. At the Center, he’ll use his experience writing about and researching environmental policy to communicate our impact and that of our partners.
Their combined expertise and diverse backgrounds will strengthen the Center’s research capacity, enhance its competitiveness for grants, and deepen its community engagement.
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