Felicia Marcus, a major figure in California water policy, is currently the Landreth Visiting Fellow at Stanford University’s Water in the West Program working on issues including nature-based solutions, protecting and restoring instream flows, water rights, and water justice. Felicia was formerly: Chair of the California State Water Resources Control Board; Regional Administrator of the U.S. EPA Region IX; head of the City of Los Angeles’ Department of Public Works; Western Director at NRDC; EVP/COO of the Trust for Public Land; and a public interest and private sector attorney.