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Local Partnerships

Wetlands Watch partners with a wide range of local organizations, municipalities, associations, and groups. For more information, please visit our Partners page. Collaborating with local organizations and groups is essential to our success. These organizations and offices have an intimate understanding of the communities they serve, and are uniquely positioned to design and implement programs that benefit their particular constituencies.

Governance & Guidance

Our staff serves on the governing boards of a number of important and consequential nonprofits. Among them:

Mary-Carson Stiff, Executive Director

  • Virginia Conservation Network. Board Member: 2025 to present.

  • Virginia Wetlands Policy Task Force. Member: 2025 to present.

  • Virginia Sea Grant. Advisory Board Member: 2023 to present.

  • Coastal Virginia Conservancy. Trustee: 2016 to 2021; Vice-Chair: 2016 to 2023; Trustee: 2023 to present.

  • Virginia Land Conservation Foundation. Vice-Chair: 2019 to 2024.

  • Coastal Virginia Community Rating System Workgroup. Co-chair: 2015 to 2024.

  • City of Chesapeake Natural Event Mitigation Advisory Committee. Member: 2016 to 2022.

  • Norfolk Environmental Commission. Commissioner: 2015 to 2019.

Stacie McGraw, Director of Operations and Living Infrastructure Director

  • Living Shoreline Collaborative Steering Committee. Member: 2022 to present.

Shereen Hughes, Ambassador

  • Chesapeake Conservation Landscaping Council. Board member: 2017 to present.

  • Chesapeake Bay Landscaping Professional Steering Committee. Member: 2014 to 2025.

  • Rappahannock River Roundtable Technical Advisory Board. Member: 2021 to 2025.

  • Living Shoreline Collaborative Steering Committee. Member: 2019 to 2025.

  • Upper and Middle James Riparian Consortium Steering Committee. Member: 2019 to 2025

Ian Blair, Director of Public Policy

  • Elizabeth River Project Technical Policy Committee. Member: 2024 to present.

  • Norfolk Wetlands Board. Alternate: July 2025 to February 2027.

  • Virginia Floodplain Management Association, Representative, Policy Committee Chair, Board Appointed July 2025; term expires July 2027.

Genevieve Guerry, Flood Risk Project Staffer

  • Virginia Community Rating System Workgroup. Chair: 2025 to present.

  • The Coastal Society Board of Directors. Member: 2026 to present.