Our Team
Founded by environmental justice and climate adaptation experts Frank Lowenstein and Olivia Gomez, Alluvial supports community adaptation projects through planning, program design, communications, and grant writing. When specialized knowledge or skills are needed, we offer to bring in trusted professionals from our extensive national network.
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FounderFrank is a career-long nonprofit leader focused on climate change, land and water conservation, and the relation of both to regional sustainability. He has a track record of successful innovation and driving organizational change. He’s worked on the ground across the US and Latin America, and has led teams across five continents. He has a deep interest in the growth and success of organizations and the individuals who form them.
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Founding PartnerOlivia is a seasoned community and climate resilience professional with a particular aptitude and appreciation for communications and engagement. They are experienced with program design and project management and are dedicated to fostering equity, justice, and decolonization through climate adaptation and other environmental projects.
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Maya is a consensus building professional with 15 years of experience designing and facilitating collaborative, multi-stakeholder initiatives across a wide variety of environmental and public health issues in the U.S. and globally. She guides processes and dialogues that navigate complex and technical questions, bridge cultural divides, engage diverse perspectives, and deliver impactful and durable results. In addition to being a member of the Alluvial Network, Maya is a Founding Partner of Portage Collective.
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Paul is an expert in outcome-oriented consensus building with over 30 years of experience convening and leading organizational and multi-party efforts to address complex issues and transform opportunities into action. He mediates and facilitates high-stakes site- and issue-specific disputes and brings deep expertise in natural resource management, with emphasis on species conservation and management, deep seabed mining, and energy. Across these issues, Paul guides groups through the creative thinking and challenging negotiations required to transform shared goals into clear, actionable paths forward. He also leads organizational strategic planning efforts, using analysis, goal development, and agreement around a desired path forward to identify implementation steps and assessment metrics.
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Katie specializes in facilitation, training, behavior change, and environmental justice, with a focus on supporting people and communities to meet their social and environmental goals. She believes that building stronger communities is one of our biggest tools and defenses to support human well-being and natural resource management. She has experience training and coaching a wide range of practitioners across the globe on behavior change and community engagement campaigns as well as researching and writing behavior change tools and resources.
Join Us
We’re always growing our network of adaptation allies. We call ourselves Alluvial because we’re part of a larger flow. Like the sediment that is carried by a river and deposited to make fertile ground, our motley crew is working to enrich existing grassroots efforts and organizations around the country.
