After six years of transformative leadership, the California Water Data Consortium is honoring two founding board members as they complete their tenure as founding Board members: Deven Upadhyay and Joone Kim-Lopez. When Senator Bill Dodd’s AB 1755 launched California’s Open and Transparent Water Data Act in 2016, it took visionaries like Deven and Joone to transform legislative mandate into living practice. As part of the founding board in 2019, they helped build the Consortium from concept to California’s trusted partner in data-driven decision-making.