Joshua Bradt, CO-Director

Josh Bradt is a professional environmental planner and project manager who has worked on Bay Area creek and watershed issues for over 20 years. Josh’s current work at the San Francisco Estuary Partnership focuses on green infrastructure policy, planning, and practice.  Prior to this, he spearheaded the creation of the City of Berkeley’s Citywide Watershed Management Plan. Josh was Executive Director and Restoration Director of the non-profit Urban Creeks Council, managing all aspects of numerous restoration projects that promote creeks as community assets. He has also worked as a Watershed Specialist for the Contra Costa Countywide Clean Water Program, facilitating municipal compliance with federal Clean Water Act requirements.  Josh has a B.A. in Political Science from the University of North Carolina.

Ann Riley, CO-DIRECTOR

Dr. Ann Riley has organized, planned, designed ,constructed and funded stream restoration projects  in California and other regions of the United States. Her involvement with non-profit work at the community level countrywide spans over thirty years. She has also worked for local, state and federal agencies for over 40 years in watershed planning , water quality, water conservation, hydrology, flood management, stream science  and restoration. A feature of both her private and public sector work has been to provide jobs and training for conservation and youth corps. In 1982 she co-founded the Urban Creeks Council in California and in 1993 was instrumental in  organizing  the first conference of the Coalition to Restore Urban Waters, a national network of urban stream and river organizations. She began a program in the California Department of Water Resources in 1984 that continues to provide grants to support urban stream restoration. Awards recognizing her work include an American Rivers award in 1993 for her leadership in establishing a national urban river movement, the California Governors’ Environmental and Economic Leadership award in 2003, and the Salmonid Restoration Federation’s Restorationist of the Year Award in 2004.  She began her association with river scientist Luna Leopold in Washington D.C. in 1971 and completed two graduate degrees under his direction at the University of California, Berkeley. She is an urban farmer at her residence in Sebastopol, California raising chickens, bees, growing food, and brewing  award-wining mead and beer.

luis martinez, restoration specialist

Luis Martinez is a Vallejo resident who is supporting CUSP’s community-based restoration projects in the East Bay. He is currently managing vegetation establishment at the Codornices Creek Kains Avenue restoration site.

Jessica Hall, outreach & restoration Director

Jessica Hall works from Eureka to manage CUSP statewide restoration and policy programs. She has a background in landscape architecture and watershed planning.