Our Board and Partners

Our Board and our faculty advisors are the amazing people listed below.  We are currently recruiting more people for our board; if you’re interested, please email wh2ojournal@gmail.com.

Faculty and Staff Advisors:

  • Stanley Laskowski, Lecturer and Advisor, Department of Earth and Environmental Science, University of Pennsylvania and founder of Philadelphia Global Water Alliance (PGWI)
  • Fred Scatena, Professor and Department Chair, Department of Earth and Environmental Science, University of Pennsylvania. 
  • Yvette Bordeaux,  Director of the Professional Master’s Programs in Earth and Environmental Science, University of Pennsylvania.
  • Carolann Clark, Development and Alumni Affairs Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania

Board Members

  • Kusum Athukorala, Founder and Chair of NetWwater, Sri Lanka; Chair of Sri Lanka Water Partnership; Life-member of the International Water Academy based in Norway; Co-Chair of the Gender Advisory Group for the World Water Development Report; Steering Committee member Women for Water Partnership; Delegate to World Water Council.

Junior Board Members:

  • Janice Kurbjun, Environment Reporter, Summit Daily Times

wh2o is supported by:

  • The Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania
  • the University of Pennsylvania Trustees’ Council of Penn Women
  • Philadelphia Global Water Initiative