Board of Directors
John J. Nagle
Board Chairman
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Bruce Abelli-Amen
Director
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Jennifer Kuszmar
Vice Chairwoman
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Jennifer Kuszmar was born and raised in north Georgia. After completing high school in Augusta, GA she attended the University of Georgia for 2 years. In 1996 she headed west to California to attend Humboldt State University where she graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Forestry with a concentration in natural resource and watershed management. Jennifer also completed two years of service in the AmeriCorps Watershed Stewards Program and has worked in both the timber and fisheries research fields. In 2003 she moved to Sonoma County to work as a Watershed Specialist with LandPaths. In 2005 Jennifer joined the Sotoyome RCD as Assistant Executive Director and acted as interim Executive Director until late 2006 when she and her husband returned to Humboldt County. Jennifer spent the next several years working for the County of Humboldt on behalf of the North Coast Resource Partnership managing several multi-million dollar state grants for water resource projects over a seven county region. In 2015 Jennifer’s professional career brought her back to Sonoma County. She is currently on staff at the Sonoma County Agricultural Preservation and Open Space District as the Matching Grant Coordinator, managing a grant program that provides funding for urban open space projects.
Ariana Reguzzoni
Director
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Vickie Mulas
Director
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Beth Bruzzone
Director
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Ron Rolleri
Director
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Dennis Murphy
Associate Director
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Walter Ryan
Director Emeritus
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Earle W. Cummings
Director Emeritus
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Delmar Friedrichsen
Director Emeritus
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Tom Hammond is a Professional Engineer registered in California for Agricultural and Civil Engineering. His responsibilities at the RCD started in 2022 and include providing Partner Engineering services to the Sonoma, Gold Ridge and Marin RCD’s. Tom graduated from Cal Poly, SLO in Bioresrouces and Ag Engineering. He has been practicing engineering in Sonoma County since 2007. In that time he has worked for public municipalities, private consulting firms, and private businesses providing solutions for water, power, and soil systems. Tom grew up in Sonoma County and is enjoying raising his family here as well.
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Kevin has over ten years’ of experience in the field of natural resource conservation. His skillset includes spatial analysis and cartography (ArcGIS), groundwater and surface water monitoring, stream channel surveying (total station), CEQA and permitting, and riparian revegetation design. Kevin has training and experience in road-related erosion and sediment source assessment (CDFW-approved methodology) as well as sediment delivery inventory and monitoring (UC ANR methodology). Kevin co-leads the RCD’s LandSmart Planning program for vineyards, working with vineyard owners and managers to develop farm conservation plans and to implement conservation projects identified in these plans. Kevin leads the RCD’s groundwater monitoring programs which cover over 150 private wells total across the entire district. Kevin earned his B.A. in Environmental Studies and a minor in Earth Sciences from the University of California, Santa Cruz.