Chapter President
Lesley Owning
Environmental Planning Group Manager
HELIX Environmental Planning
LesleyO@helixepi.com

Chapter Director
Jacqueline Markley, M.S., AICP
Project Manager
RES
jmarkley@res.us

Vice President of Membership
Isabella Ciraulo
Staff Environmental Scientist
Dewberry
iciraulo@dewberry.com

Co Vice Presidents of Programs
Stephanie Parsons
Owner/President
CreativEnviroment Group
stephanie@creativenviro.com

Neil Peacock
Senior Environmental Planner
Office of NEPA Assignment & Environmental
Compliance, Caltrans HQ
Neil.Peacock@dot.ca.gov

Secretary
Laurel “L.K.” Ward
Instructional Support Technician 2
CSU Sacramento
lkearlward@gmail.com

Treasurer
Janet Dallas
Marketing Director
AECOM
janet.dallas@aecom.com

Student Liaison, Scholarship Chair & APA Liaison
Lee Moore
Senior Environmental Planner
SWCA
Lee.Moore@swca.com

AEP Legislative Committee Representative
Katherine Waugh
Senior Project Manager
Dudek
kwaugh@dudek.com

Communications Director
Ellia Simmons
Ecologist/Planner
Great Ecology
esimmons@greatecology.com

At Large Directors
Alex Jewell
Senior Project Manager
Kimley-Horn and Associates
alex.jewell@kimley-horn.com

Hunter Watkins
Project Manager/Environmental Planning
Terracon
Hunter.Watkins@terracon.com

Anviti Singh
Environmental Planner
HELIX Environmental Planning
AnvitiS@helixepi.com

Trish Fernandez, RPA
President / CEO at InContext
tfernandez@incontext.co

Ryan Thomason
Attorney at Mitchell Chadwick
rthomason@mitchellchadwick.com

Updated: Jan 15, 2026 by Reid Walley