The Water Forum is pleased to announce the appointment of Ashlee Casey, PE, as its new Executive Director. With over a decade of experience addressing California’s most pressing water resource challenges, Casey brings a strong foundation in engineering, collaborative problem-solving, and strategic planning to her new leadership role. Casey originally joined the Water Forum in 2021 as a water resources engineer, where she focused on regional surface and groundwater reliability, managed technical support for the Water Forum’s Flow Management Standard on the Lower American River, and contributed to projects addressing long-term sustainability. (Casey graduated in 2018 from the Water Education Foundation’s Water Leaders program.)