In addition to leading our work to clean up and restore Puget Sound, Jessie Israel is our chief architect for advancing our work in urban areas.
Hannah Kett is the Urban Program Director, working collaboratively with those on the ground to increase access to nature.
Courtney is the Program and Communications Specialist for the Puget Sound team at The Nature Conservancy in Washington, supporting both the Cities and the Water team.
I am an aquatic ecologist at The Nature Conservancyβs cities, land, and water programs. I hold a Ph.D. from the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences at the University of Washington, with a focus on estuarine restoration and food web ecology in tidally-influenced ecosystems. My work integrates across ecosystem boundaries, investigating how landscape configuration and management shapes cross-boundary relationships for food webs, organisms, and ecosystem processes.