Annual Meeting

2022 Annual Meeting
Thursday, March 31, 2022

Every year, Charles River Watershed Association looks forward to connecting with our members and recognizing CRWA advocates and volunteers whose dedicated environmental work helps protect and preserve the Charles River during our Annual Meeting.

Thank you to all of the members, advocates, and friends of the Charles who joined CRWA staff on Thursday, March 31 at 6:00 PM (EST) on Zoom for Charles River Watershed Association’s 56th Annual Meeting from the comfort of their home.

Please enjoy the full recording of our 2021 Annual Meeting, and stay tuned for presentations from the breakout sessions.

A CLEAN, RESILIENT CHARLES RIVER
STRATEGIC PLAN, 2021 - 2025

At the Annual Meeting, CRWA’s Board of Directors shared CRWA's Five Year Strategic Plan laying out our collective vision of the most pressing challenges facing the river and its watershed as well as our plans to tackle them, in partnership with you—our supporters, volunteers, and allies. Learn about our goals, objectives, and priority actions. Together we will deliver an even healthier and more resilient Charles River to the people, flora, and fauna who rely on it.

VOTING RESULTS ARE IN!

We are excited to announce that the following Directors and Officer have been elected/re-elected.

Board of Directors (term 2022-2025)
Ralph Abele, Lance Campbell, Diane Hall, Jennifer Hillenmeyer, Stephanie Hsia, Matt Jasmin, Ihssane Leckey

Officer Election (term 2022-2024)
Laurie Doyle - Treasurer

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR NEW BOARD MEMBERS

Jennifer Hillenmeyer
Jennifer is an audit partner at EY in Boston. She previously worked in the audit practice in EY Nashville and in their national accounting group in New York. Jennifer completed a two year fellowship at the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and served as the coordinator of the Emerging Issues Task Force (EITF). Jennifer has B.S. in Business Administration and a Masters of Accountancy from the University of Tennessee. Jennifer is a member of the AICPA and the MSCPA and is a licensed in the states of Tennessee, New York, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Jennifer, her husband, Chris, and their children (Haydon and Connie) live near the Charles River in Medfield and spend lots of , time on the Charles River fly fishing, kayaking and paddleboarding. Jennifer’s husband is an biology and sustainability teacher in Newton.

Stephanie Hsia
Stephanie is an Associate with Reed Hilderbrand where she provides strategic landscape architecture and urban design work as a project manager. She strives to bring scientific rigor, ecological diversity and visual acuity to her projects. Most recently, she has led the development of the City of Cambridge’s Urban Forest Master Plan, a bicycle and pedestrian greenway in Tampa Florida, and a private waterfront residence in New Hampshire. She earned her Master of Landscape Architecture degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, a Master of Environmental Science and Management from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and an undergraduate degree from Rice University in Houston, Texas. She has been a guest lecturer and critic at University of Pennsylvania and Rhode Island School of Design, received an ASLA Honor Award in Research for “State of City Soils” in 2015, and an ASLA Honor Award for General Design in 2013 for her student project Aqua Delta. She enjoys hiking, cooking, and painting in her spare time.

Matt Jasmin
Matt is a Senior Civil Engineer at Howard Stein Hudson as well as a Captain Engineering Officer with the US Air Force National Guard, and an adjunct professor at Francis College of Engineering at UMass Lowell. In addition to a MA in Civil Engineering with a transportation focus from UMass Lowell, Jasmin has over 10 years of progressive experience in program management, project management, highway, and complete streets design, construction inspection, and oversight.

Ihssane Leckey
Ihssane is system regulator for the Federal Reserve and a former candidate for the Massachusetts 4th congressional district. Additionally, Ihssane has worked in the realm of public finance to support financially struggling municipalities as they restructured their debt and revised their bond ratings. Prior to that in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, she worked with a Philadelphia area food bank to address food deserts and state government attempts to make cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Ihssane immigrated to America from Morocco at the age of 20 on her own and holds a Bachelor’s degree in economics and math from Boston University.

ANNUAL MEETING HONOREES

Anne M. Blackburn Award
Andrea Nyamekye, Neighbor To Neighbor (N2N)
Sofia Owen, Alternatives for Community and Environment (ACE)
María Belén Power, GreenRoots

Clean Charles Award
Indrani Ghosh, Ph. D, Weston & Sampson

Ginger Lawrence Volunteer Award
Tom Trainor, CRWA Volunteer

Rita Barron Public Official Award
John Bolduc, Environmental Planner, City of Cambridge
Marianne Iarossi, Open Space Projects Planner, Town of Natick

Special Recognition Award
Sarah Slaughter, Former CRWA Board Member

CRWA Young Leaders Award
Woodside Montessori Middle School

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The Annual Meeting will be held virtually under the state’s emergency COVID-19 provisions (chapter 53, section 16 of the Acts of 2020), which allow for virtual member meetings during the pandemic and for 60 days thereafter.

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