Watershed Management Group Docent

Arianna DuPont

Arianna’s fondest childhood memories are the days spent at Sabino Creek with her family. Living in and exploring this watershed from a young age, Arianna has grown up fascinated by riparian areas and the existence of water in the desert. As a docent with WMG, she hopes to educate the public about the importance of water conservation in addition to contributing to fieldwork through data collection and restoration efforts. She is also an avid photographer, often returning to Sabino Creek as a source of creative inspiration.

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Bill Wilkening

Bill earned a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines, plus an M.S. in Reliability Engineering from the University of Arizona, and worked for 35 years with several companies. Tucson is a special place for his family, as his wife can trace her roots back six generations in the Tucson area. With WMG, Bill sees an opportunity to help rebuild Tucson as a place where you know and help your neighbor. He volunteers teaching middle school students about engineering by having them design water harvesting systems and enjoys backpacking, swimming, and cycling.

Language fluency: English
Pronouns: He/Him

Brenda Hughey

Brenda loves and appreciates the beauty of the desert as well as the green of Upstate New York. She is a retired Army officer who held various management positions in the areas of logistics, administration, physical fitness training/development, and casualty affairs during her 20-year career. She is grateful to have the time to volunteer and support the highly important WMG mission of restoring the watershed in this region.

Language fluency: English
Pronouns: She/Her

Carol Margolis

Carol was born and raised in upstate NY near the Erie Canal. She came to Arizona for a college education in anthropology and stayed on as a computer jack-of-all-trades and now works in medical research. In 2007, Carol became a graduate of the Master Watershed Steward program through the Pima County Cooperative Extension Service. Carol’s graduation project was to map the entire arundo stands in the Sabino Canyon Recreation Area before it was cut down and doused with herbicide. Her goal is to interpret rainwater harvesting knowledge into mainstream practice through education and demonstration.

Language fluency: English
Pronouns: She/Her

Catherine Land Evilsizor

Catherine recently retired from her work administering a federal grant program at the Arizona Department of Education, working with K-12 schools throughout Arizona. She retired in order to work on addressing the climate emergency. Water issues have been her priority for some time, so she is happy to help out at Watershed Management Group, believing it to be one of the most effective and exciting organizations locally working on water and related issues. She and many of her neighbors and friends actively and passively harvest rainwater, have homes and cars/bicycles powered with electricity and grow native and low water use plants on the lands they steward.

Language fluency: English
Pronouns: She/Her

Dan Stormont

Dan is a computer engineer by training, with a BS from the University of Arizona, MS from the University of New Mexico, and an Electrical Engineer degree from Utah State University. He is the Tucson Regional Manager for TEALS, a Microsoft Philanthropies program that connects industry professionals with high school teachers to bring computer science into Tucson schools. Dan was previously the Green Living Co-op Manager for WMG. Dan is also a member of WMG’s Monsoon Squad, River Run Network, and is a certified local phenology leader with the National Phenology Network. He is involved in many activities in the community, including serving on the core team for Sustainable Tucson.

Glenn Dunn

Glenn is a retired engineer and has been a resident of Tucson for 35 years. He is an active member of the WMG co-op and regularly participates in rainwater and greywater harvesting workshops. His interests include passive and active solar, rainwater/greywater harvesting, and woodworking. Glenn also volunteers for the Boy Scouts of America and Habitat for Humanity.

Language fluency: English
Pronouns: He/him

Jennifer Spawn

I'm passionate about the environment, self-improvement and making meaningful connections. Permaculture principles have been guiding my life for nearly two decades. Its so much easier to work with nature instead of against it! An Arizona native, I’ve been in Tucson/Marana for around 15 years. I attended the University of Arizona from 2004-2009, studying Wildlife Management in the School of Natural Resources. My daughter and I love to be outside, exploring trails in the Tortolitas, road tripping around the state and of course exploring new cuisine! I love to garden, save seeds and admire the tiny ecosystems in my yard. I’ve held a variety of professional positions both inside and apart from the sustainability world. As a docent for WMG, I am expanding my love of community engagement through knowledge and experience sharing. 

Language fluency: English
Pronouns: She/Her

Laurel Pollard

Laurel lives in Stone Curves, a co-housing community of 48 households in Tucson. They cooperate in maintaining our six-acre permaculture landscape, and I co-lead our ‘Green Team’. She's not a trained permaculturist, so she wants to learn more as a WMG docent. Laurel has taught classes in Recycling and in Reducing Consumerism; she has fun seeing how close she can get to zero waste. She is a kayaker and last year paddled the mighty Rillito. (It was a few inches deep at the time, so there was a lot of portaging.) She wants to be part of reviving our rivers and is eager to meet fellow environmental enthusiasts. Laurel is single, a mother of a son and daughter who both live in Tucson (lucky her!) 

Language fluency: English
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Micaila DeClouette

Micaila’s mother’s family is from rural Northern California, where time is marked by the good and bad harvests. Her father’s family is from the San Francisco Bay Area, where there is significant disconnection from the natural ecological system. She has been a Tucson resident since 2018 and has taken workshops at Watershed Management Group since 2019. Like many non-Tucson natives, she didn’t realize how green the desert could be after Monsoon! After WMG installed a rainwater harvesting system in her backyard in 2020, she took the initiative a few years later to build her own basins based on education guidelines provided by WMG. She has planted over 100 drought-tolerant species of trees, shrubs, flowers and vines at her home. Her vision for Tucson is to see augmented intersectional and equitable access to conservation and sustainable projects. On the off chance she’s not playing in the dirt, she might be found running/biking on the Loop, dining out somewhere in our UNICEF-designated City of Gastronomy, or at home tackling her stack from Bookman’s.

Language fluency: English
Pronouns: she/her

Ray Colvin

I read Dune at the age of 17 and immediately read it again. I have never looked at water the same since those readings. I became an avid river runner and hiker largely to be around water and its wonder. Water in any form.  Reverence is the only thing we can bring. I am most proud of the fact that I have raised two of the most remarkable women I know and they have a respect for water, as well. During my career I developed restaurant and hotel concepts, published books, wrote curriculum for Le Cordon Bleu International and ended up being the president of a nursing college. The desert has always drawn me and where water and the desert come together is magical. My motto is, “The River always wins.” Those who are successful understand how to sustain the flow and they just get in the boat.

Language fluency: English
Pronouns: He/Him

Sabina Quiroz

Sabina was born and raised in Tucson AZ, where she grew up to admire the land of the Saguaros and the Creosote that makes our desert so unique. She graduated from the University of Arizona in 2020 with a B.S. in Management Information Systems. Sabina grew up with a fond love for nature through cycling, camping, and hiking with her dad and sister and is excited to lean into the conservation and education work that Watershed Management has to offer the Tucson community. In her free time, you will find Sabina crocheting, building miniature houses, and going for walks.

Language fluency: English
Pronouns: She/Her