About the Tanana Valley Watershed Board of Directors

The Tanana Valley Watershed Board of Directors is made up of volunteers that live throughout the watershed. Board members are the fiduciaries who steer the organization towards a sustainable future by adopting sound, ethical, and legal governance and financial management policies. They also make sure the nonprofit organization has adequate resources to advance its mission and keep it relevant to the needs of our community. The board meets bi-monthly on Zoom.

Meetings are open to the public.

If you would like to attend – please contact us to confirm: 907.374.8890 or tvwatershed@gmail.com

Christy Everett, Chair

Christy has been a resident of North Pole since 1987, and has been involved with the Chena Slough Restoration Neighborhood Committee, the Chena Slough Technical Committee, and TVWA from the beginning. She is very interested in educating residents about the values and vulnerabilities of our local waterways. She has a M.S. in Range Science, and has worked for Natural Resource Conservation Service, Bureau of Land Management, Fairbanks North Star Borough and the Corps of Engineers, both at the Chena River Flood Control Project and the Regulatory Fairbanks Field Office. She is currently self-employed as an environmental consultant.

Royce Conlon, Vice Chair

Royce received her BSCE from the University of Alaska Fairbanks in 1987 and is registered to practice Civil Engineering in Alaska. Royce she is a key Project Engineer in projects ranging from preparation of environmental assessments, environmental site audits, locations studies, design study reports, assembly of construction plans, specifications, as well as construction administration and negotiations. Along with solid engineering skills, one of Royce’s key strengths is her ability to work with public involvement facets of environmentally sensitive project. Royce is a key member of PDC’s Transportation Team.

Cynthia Nelson, Treasurer

Cynthia came to Fairbanks on active duty with the US Army in 2011. She is an Operation Iraqi Freedom veteran. Since making Fairbanks her home, she graduated from the University of Alaska Fairbanks with a BS in Natural Resources Management. She currently is an Environmental Impact Analyst with the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities.

She loves to be outdoors with her children growing their own food, berry picking, hunting, and fishing. Pacific salmon is her passion and the Alaska way of life is the core of her family.

Tori Brannan, Director

Tori joins us from the public education sector as a recently retired principal and teacher. Born and raised in Interior Alaska, she returned to her roots after receiving her B.S. and M.S. from Brigham Young University and a short stint in central Oregon. She has ten seasons of experience working in wildfire suppression in Alaska, Idaho, and Oregon before returning to academia for certifications in K-8 Teaching from the University of Alaska Southeast and K-12 Educational Leadership from the University of Alaska Anchorage. Tori has been involved with TVWA for over ten years and led her class and school in a study of a levee's impact on their local Piledriver Slough. She is passionate about engaging our children and youth in authentic, place-based science and helping them realize they are scientists through inquiry-based study and data collection that is shared with scientists worldwide.