Athena Bertolino

Athena Bertolino has more than twenty years of experience in the environmental field. Prior to becoming Project Manager for the Future Rivers graduate training program at the University of Washington’s EarthLab, she spent 14 years at Ross Strategic – a small consulting firm based in Seattle – where her work focused on a wide range of multi-stakeholder processes working to address regional watershed and land use planning; climate concerns related to drinking water, groundwater, and energy use; and the nexus between the environment and public health. Athena holds a Master’s degree in International Studies and a Graduate Certificate in Conservation Biology Policy from the University of Washington, as well as a Bachelor of Science, summa cum laude with Honors, in Environmental Science with a Minor in Cultural Studies from the University of Arizona. She is also a 2017 graduate of the Fourth Quadrant Partners Emergent Learning Certification Program.