Speaker: Mindy Roberts
The health of Puget Sound and the Salish Sea is every bit as complicated as human health. How you answer the question “Are you healthy?” depends on who is asking, the context of the question, and your response typically varies over time depending on what is happening in your life. You might give a concerned family member one response today and have a vastly different response for a physician two years from now. Let’s explore the health of Puget Sound and the Salish Sea together and what that means from the perspective of communities, water quality, and species like salmon and orcas. While bad news gets media attention and shares, when you stop and look – really look – it turns out that there are successes.
Bio:
Mindy Roberts leads the Puget Sound Program at Washington Conservation Action, formerly Washington Environmental Council and Washington Conservation Voters. WCA’s mission is to advocate for environmental progress and justice through actions that mobilize the public, elect champions for the environment, and hold our leaders accountable. Mindy advocates for clean water, healthy habitat, and renewed leadership to protect and recover Puget Sound and the Salish Sea. Mindy is a registered professional engineer with over 30 years’ experience cleaning up pollution and restoring habitat all over the world. She has degrees in environmental engineering from UC Berkeley (BS), MIT/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (MS), and University of Washington (Ph.D.). Mindy is driven by a passion for environmental justice and ensuring that future generations experience salmon, orcas, and healthy communities.