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.