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Inspiring, skilled and effective.  Siwan is a familiar face in the Australian river restoration community, with her work in communications, public speaking, leadership and on-ground riparian rehabilitation well-known and respected.  She enjoys facilitating and empowering others to value themselves and their knowledge so that rivers and waterways can be managed confidently, in partnership with nature.

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Lori specialises in riparian rehabilitation projects that focus on engaging the community in improving biodiversity, linking vegetation, addressing salinity, etc. She is the on-ground Program Manager for Rivers of Carbon, a program she and Siwan co-founded six years ago Lori is practical, approachable and a great person to talk to about all things riparian. She is a skilled community practitioner and is always willing to share her experiences with others.

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Pat is the digital marketing strategist, ensuring the science and the stories we share have clear audience and are distributed on the right channels. He enjoys getting to develop the digital ‘why’, ‘what’ and ‘how’ for every project, offering value to anyone working in natural resource management who wants to share knowledge and empower others.

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Antia wears many hats as a Waterwatch Coordinator and Facilitator of the Upper Murrumbidgee Demonstration Reach. A passionate paddler and lover of the river, Antia spends her time working with locals to protect and restore the Murrumbidgee from Casuarina Sands to the Headwaters. She is a great community connector, bringing landholders together to remove weeds, stabilise banks and create native fish habitat. Her interest is working with the community to build knowledge and share information and use it as part of locally tailored programs.

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Andy is passionate about improving river health through improved flow regimes. With over a decade of experience working with water for the environment in the Murray-Darling Basin, his focus is on the collaboration and communication required between First Nations, communities, scientists, industries and government agencies, to improve our rivers. Andy is also committed to strengthening the water industry network through programs which support mentoring and collaboration across agencies.

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Mikayla assists in content creation, field visits and carbon sequestration projects. Working with ARRC has helped connect her earth science and geography studies with real world experience and applications. She is most excited to learn about how engaging landholders can create better outcomes for land, wildlife and people. She is looking forward to collaborating further with enthusiastic people working towards a sustainable future.

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Kate does the content writing and research for ARRC. As an environmental science student, she is very excited to be reading, writing and learning more about what is happening in the field, and sharing that with ARRC’s audience! So far, working with ARRC has taught her a lot about the importance of people and connections for protecting our environment, and she is looking forward to further combining her environmental science background with this.

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Masha is passionate about how social media can support relationships, communities and growth. She was super excited to bring what she knows about digital marketing into a field that she feels strongly about. Although not (yet) an expert when it comes to the technical aspects of rivers or the environment, she loves that she gets to educate and make an impact on herself, and hopefully others, with the work that she does.

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Lucy is a third-year environment and sustainability student who supports the ARRC team in content writing and research. She is passionate about human interaction within the environment, engaging with stakeholders and supporting Indigenous cultural values. She is very eager to gain knowledge and experience through her work and hopes to make that knowledge accessible for all.

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Innovative, energetic and disciplined, Matt joins the team as an experienced business leader to help ARRC effectively deliver its mission. He is passionate about delivering exceptional results and loves experiencing that within an amazing team building pathways to better waterways management.  

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Izzy is passionate about building connections between people and the environment as a way to look after and nurture this environment. She is continually inspired by people who are working to achieve this and feels privileged to be working with team of ARRC and Rivers of Carbon. She has experience in analysing the application of environmental policy but is excited to move towards on-groundwork and ‘get her hands dirty.’