• College leadership
• Ecosystem and community resilience
• Science communication

Lisa is the inaugural Dean of the UW College of the Environment and Mary Laird Wood Professor at the University of Washington. As a scholar, she pioneered the use of tree-ring data to understand long-term trends in climate. Lisa is always looking for better ways to bring the tremendous scientific capacity of the College to bear on critical environmental issues. Lisa loves to travel to remote destinations, especially with her adventurous teenage daughter.

• Executive Support
• Scheduling
• Governance support

Andrea provides executive support to Dean Lisa J. Graumlich. She is the central resource for information pertaining to the dean’s priorities and strategic initiatives, manages her calendar, and analyzes and prepares materials for committees, programs and projects. Andrea is also the staff lead for internal and external committees chaired by the dean. Outside of work she enjoys knitting, reading and exploring the globe one country at the time.

• Office management
• Event planning
• Meeting support

When you enter the dean's office, Sierra is likely the first person you will see. She provides administrative support, is a resource for office events and the go-to for meeting scheduling, catering, room reservations and equipment set up. She enjoys chai tea and listening to Solange.

• Research Administration
• Administrative Support

Fiona is a central resource for information about research programs and opportunities within the College and supports special projects as needed. She also serves as the primary liaison for the Dean’s Office to the College’s Health and Safety Committee. Fiona enjoys being outdoors, drinking coffee and finding dogs to play with.

• Financial support
• Payroll
• Staff human resources

Wendy provides financial and HR support to the dean’s office and units. She reconciles budgets, processes expense and travel reimbursements and assists the team with compiling and updating budget data for monthly reports. She serves as payroll coordinator and assists the HR director. Outside of work, Wendy spends time training to assist with volunteer operational support for Snohomish County Search and Rescue.

• IT support

Harry is responsible for IT coordination across the College's units and providing recommendations and support for IT to the Dean's office. Outside of work, Harry is the treasurer of the church he attends, brews his own beer and enjoys spending time with his granddaughters.

• Daily operations
• Fiscal resources
• Financial management

Caroline is responsible for the daily fiscal administration of dean’s office budgets and general office operations. Caroline works closely with the director of finance and units’ administrators to ensure the strategic and successful management of College and dean’s office fiscal resources. Outside of work, Caroline enjoys movies, traveling and spending quality time with her family.

• HR Advising
• Recruiting
• Promotion and Tenure

Kiki provides support and guidance to the College's units in regards to policy, HR practices, recruitment, promotion and tenure processes and approval, classification and other HR projects. She likes to spend time, travel and continuously experience new things together with her son and husband.

• Human resources

Megan manages both academic and staff HR across the College. She provides advice and guidance on compensation, recruitment and hiring, classification, promotions and tenure, performance management, layoffs/dismissals, leaves, and merit, and is involved in many special projects and initiatives for the College that involve HR. She stays busy with her kids, drinks vast amounts of coffee and enjoys the antics of her dog, Roscoe.

• Decision support
• Process improvement
• Solutions design

Davina interfaces with senior management, faculty, and staff to understand and document unmet business needs and inefficient business processes. She analyzes processes and design solutions to solve business problems. Davina also creates standardized, flexible and intuitive reporting tools and metrics for presenting information.

• Funding and budgeting
• Human resources
• Strategic planning

Kathryn leads the College's Finance and Administration team. She is the point person for the College's funding, budgets, academic and staff human resources, as well as being a strategic partner in the continued growth and development of the College. When Kathryn has free time, you can find her either working outside at home or on her old wooden trawler (preferably with grandkids and dogs).

• Expanding academic programming

Julia is responsible for academic policy, supporting and facilitating unit-based and interdisciplinary academic programming and expanding experiential learning opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students throughout the College.

• Student services administration
• Academic policy
• Curriculum administration

Michelle directs the Academic Affairs student services team and coordinates recruitment, retention and advising efforts of the student services staff across the College. She is the point person for academic policies and manages the College Curriculum Committee and the review process for new courses and academic programs. She also manages career services initiatives, including the Career Opportunities page and the Environmental Career Fair.

• Interdisciplinary majors and minors
• Academic advising
• Data analysis

Joe provides academic advising and program coordination for multiple interdisciplinary undergraduate programs in the College. This includes advising for minors in marine biology and quantitative science, and promoting undergraduate course and student research opportunities at Friday Harbor Labs. Joe also supports data analysis related to undergraduate student recruitment and retention, and statistics of course offering and evaluation.

• Prospective student advising
• Pre-major advising
• Undergraduate student services

As the pre-major academic adviser for the College, Barbara helps prospective and current undergraduates who are exploring environmental majors find the best fit. She serves as the College's liaison to central campus student services units including Admissions, First Year Programs, Minority Affairs and Diversity, Undergraduate Academic Advising and the Career Center. She enjoys kayaking on the Salish Sea, snooping around beaches during low tide and relaxing on her deck with her husband.

• Graduate student services
• Postdoc affairs
• Scholarships

Anthony works on recruitment, retention and professional development programming for graduate students and posdoctoral fellows at the College. He manages prospective graduate student events and graduate student orientation and coordinates the Graduate Recruitment, Retention and Diversity group and the Scholarship Committee. He's also point person for the Meet, Greet, Teach event series. Anthony is an historian and baseball writer, homebrewer and advocate for diversity in STEM fields.

• Donor relations
• Events

Rachel is based on San Juan Island and works closely with Friday Harbor Labs' Advancement board. She also coordinates annual Friday Harbor Labs donor events. Rachel dabbles in artistic ventures, but mostly enjoys going to art museums, concerts and dance performances.

• Donor relations

Kristin partners with individuals who make research and education possible by supporting programs within the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, Department of Earth and Space Sciences and UW Botanic Gardens. A Husky alumna herself, Kristin has been working with the College since 2013. When she's not in the office, she can be found kayaking Puget Sound, enjoying the mountains or working in her garden.

• College priorities
• Individual giving
• Corporate and foundation relations

Jerry is the advancement liaison for the School of Marine and Environmental Affairs and the Department of Atmospheric Sciences. He also works to raise private support for College-wide priorities both with individuals and through corporate and foundation relations.

• Donor relations
• Corporate relations
• Foundation engagement

Liz develops comprehensive strategies to raise corporate and foundation gifts and private grants in support of departmental and College-wide priorities. She is the point person for corporate and foundation engagement and outreach. Outside of work, she enjoys playing her trombone and spending time with family and friends.

• Events
• Alumni and donor engagement
• Constituent relations

Andrea is responsible for strategic creation, management and implementation of various external events and communications that lead to enhanced public awareness of and increased private support for the College. She is the College's Alumni and Constituent Relations officer. She enjoys coaching youth sports and managing the PTA after school programs for her neighborhood school.

• Donor relations
• Endowments
• Stewardship reports

Zanne's work focuses on donor acknowledgments, recognition and accountability, compliance and fiduciary responsibility, impact reporting, and engagement and loyalty. When not at work, you can find her singing with the Seattle Symphony Chorale at Beneroya Hall.

• Donor Relations
• Fundraising
• Stewardship

Kathleen connects internal and external stakeholders with EarthLab, one of the College's newest initiatives, to build stronger relationships between UW Environment and the community. She oversees support from individuals and private foundations making transformative gifts that impact EarthLab’s focus areas of ocean health, climate resilience, natural hazards and healthy ecosystems. Outside of work, you can find her exploring local hiking trails or experimenting with new recipes in the kitchen.

• Donor relations

As a member of the College's Advancement team, Daniel supports donor relations efforts for the School of Oceanography and the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences. He can be a resource for alumni and friends interested in connecting to the College. Outside of work, Daniel serves on the board for the PNW Association of Fundraising Professionals and is earning an MBA at the UW Foster School of Business.

• Diversity
• Equity
• Inclusion

Terryl collaborates with College of the Environment stakeholders to envision diversity, equity and inclusion efforts across the College. He works to accomplish these goals through empowering the College's diversity champions, his commitment to environmental justice and focusing on efforts that will make the biggest impact. Terryl attended film school at Syracuse University and looks forward to creating UW Environment-related digital stories.

• Diversity
• Equity
• Inclusion

Isabel is a bridge-builder between members of the College of the Environment, scientists and local communities. She promotes active and collaborative participation to create solutions for environmental problems. After work Isabel can be found playing board games and spoiling her cat.

• Marketing and communications strategy
• Brand leadership
• Storytelling

Molly leads the College's Marketing and Communications team as its Managing Director. She is the point person for the College's brand and marketing strategy and is a resource for units and groups that are looking to better tell their stories to key audiences. Outside of work, Molly can be found in a kayak in whitewater, on the ice at Granite Curling Club, and at meetings of the board of directors for the Hearing, Speech and Deaf Center.

• Web development
• User experience design
• Web tools

Drew builds and supports the College’s website along with the 10+ other sites within the College’s web framework. Drew is the point person for technical support with Trumba event calendars, Convio emails and WordPress training. He enjoys the whizzing of bike spokes, a fully trimmed sail and exploring the man-made and natural splendor of the Pacific Northwest.

• Content strategy
• Online communications
• Social media

Joe leads online communications and content strategy for the College, manages website projects, oversees social media and works with units across UW Environment to engage online audiences and promote the work of students and faculty.

• Science communication
• Communication strategy
• Writing and editing

John oversees the science communication program at the College, where he helps scientists become powerful spokespeople for their work beyond the walls of academia. He also assists various groups within the College communicate about who they are, whether through marketing or storytelling channels. When not in the office, he is out exploring shorelines and mountains on foot or building something in his basement workshop.

• Graphic Design
• Visual Communications

Zoe designs digital and print media for the College’s websites and marketing communications. In her spare time, Zoe sculpts flowers, fruits, vegetables, and other flora out of paper and hangs out with her awesome dog.

• research opportunities
• science support

Robert supports faculty, graduate students and postdocs at the College in all spheres related to research. He coordinates and tracks research activities within the College, seeks out opportunities for new interdisciplinary research and promotes the College's research portfolio within UW, as well as at the state and federal levels. In his spare time, Robert enjoys spending time with family, cooking, traveling and playing guitar.

• Research Administration
• Administrative Support

Fiona is a central resource for information about research programs and opportunities within the College and supports special projects as needed. She also serves as the primary liaison for the Dean’s Office to the College’s Health and Safety Committee. Fiona enjoys being outdoors, drinking coffee and finding dogs to play with.