Wendy M. Blackwell
Climate and Resilience Senior Lead, SWCA Environmental Consultants

Wendy Blackwell has over 30 years of professional experience in land use planning, floodplain management, and public outreach. With SWCA Environmental Consultants since April 2022, she has focused on expanding climate and resilience planning efforts for clients and partners. Examples include hazard mitigation plans, integrated water resource management plans, Hub Site development, and grant application assistance. Wendy was the Facilitation and Outreach Lead for the New Mexico Integrated Water Financing Plan; the effort involved synthesizing federal funding opportunities and developing creative financing approaches that reflected the goals, strategies, opportunities, and implementation barriers identified through a collaborative facilitated process. Prior to joining SWCA, Wendy served as the New Mexico State Hazard Mitigation Officer and then Preparedness Bureau Chief with the Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management (NM DHSEM), providing technical assistance and oversight to help achieve natural hazard mitigation goals of state, local, and tribal partners. She has extensive program management experience including Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Hazard Mitigation Assistance grant application development, sub-grant oversight, grant management, regulatory compliance, budgeting, contract management, and staff supervision. In particular, she has assisted state agencies and local communities with successful FEMA mitigation subgrant application development.

Eric Christensen
Project Manager at Adelante Consulting

Eric serves as a Project Manager for Adelante Consulting, a New Mexican environmental consulting company. He manages the New Mexico C-PACE program, on behalf of the state's Economic Development Department. Before joining Adelante, Eric worked in both the public and non-profit sector in Canada for 10 years.

Heather Himmelberger
Director, Southwest Environmental Finance Center

Heather Himmelberger is the Director of the Southwest Environmental Finance Center, a position she has held for the past 27 years. She has worked with water and wastewater utilities of all sizes, on a variety of issues, including, but not limited to: capacity development, asset management, water loss control, rate setting, regionalization/partnering, access to funding, infrastructure development, and regulatory compliance. She is a registered professional engineer with a BS in Environmental Engineering from Penn State University and an MS in Environmental Engineering from Johns Hopkins University.

Glenn Schiffbauer, Chair
Executive Director at Santa Fe Green Chamber of Commerce

Glenn Schiffbauer, a native New Mexican, received his BBA from New Mexico State University and his MBA from the Robert O. Anderson School of Management at the University of New Mexico. In 2005, he was hired as liaison and project manager for Robert Redford in New Mexico working on a variety of projects in film, government and sustainable construction. In October of 2012, he became the Executive Director for the newly founded Santa Fe Green Chamber of Commerce (SFGCC). The Green Chamber has grown to 180 business members. Mr. Schiffbauer has co-chaired the organization to co-host the Next Generation Water Summit for 7 years, a conference dedicated to water conservation that attracts speakers and attendees from around the world. Arising from that conference came a partnership between the SFGCC and the City of Santa Fe to develop and institute the country’s only Restaurant Water Conservation Program, that expanded to other businesses in 2023. Mr. Schiffbauer was also appointed to the NM Economic Department Sustainable Economic Advisory Council.

Hank Habicht
Managing Co-Founder, WFX

Hank Habicht oversees all activities of WFX, including partnership-building, developing the investment pipeline, and establishing the governance and investment process. Mr. Habicht also serves as a Principal at Global Water 2020 and as Managing Director of the U.S. Water Partnership. His career has included leadership positions at the U.S. Department of Justice as Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Environment and Natural Resources Division, and at the U.S. EPA as Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Habicht has served as Managing Partner of SAIL Capital Partners and Senior Vice President in charge of acquisitions and other divisions of Safety-Kleen. He is also served on numerous Boards, including as Chair of the Board of WaterHealth International. He serves on the Board of the U.S. Water Alliance and the U.S. Water Partnership, as head of Strategy for SunToWater, LLC, and serves on the Advisory Boards of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

Rebecca Roose
Senior Infrastructure Advisor, Office of Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham

Rebecca Roose (she/her) has over 18 years of experience in water policy and infrastructure and currently provides consulting services to the Thornburg Foundation on water policy initiatives. In 2022, Rebecca served on the Executive Committee of the New Mexico Water Policy and Infrastructure Task Force. As Deputy Cabinet Secretary of Program Administration at the New Mexico Environment Department (2021-2022), Rebecca guided key policy and regulatory priorities, including state and federal public health and environmental initiatives, and served as the Department’s lead on infrastructure investments. Previously, Rebecca served two years as the Department’s Water Protection Division Director, where she led surface and groundwater quality, drinking water protection, and wastewater infrastructure finance programs for the State. Prior to joining NMED, Rebecca worked for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for over 13 years. At EPA Headquarters, she devoted 11 years to supporting EPA, states, and Tribes with implementation of the Clean Water Act and other federal programs. During her last two years at EPA, she served as Senior Advisor for Tribal Capacity Development in the American Indian Environmental Office. Rebecca earned her law degree and natural resources law certificate from the University of New Mexico and her bachelor’s degree in Geography from Valparaiso University.