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oin us in welcoming TRWA's newest staff member, Emily Young! Emily joined our team in June as our new Assistant Environmental Services Director. In this role, she supports the Environmental Services Director, Jason Knobloch, in the oversight of our state contracts providing on-site support to water and wastewater systems. Emily was born and raised in San Antonio and ventured off to New York to attend college and spent 6 years on the East Coast. She worked for U.S. Fish and Wildlife on an island and spent a year in Americorps, working on various environmental projects for several Cape Cod Towns and the
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National Park Service. In 2002, she headed back to Texas to attend University of Texas at Austin to get her Master of Science degree in Community and Regional Planning with a focus on Environmental Planning and water resources, spending a summer interning for Barton Springs Edwards Aquifer Conservation District. Emily remained in Austin after she completed graduate school. She worked for Austin Water Utility in the Water Conservation Division and as a Legislative Assistant for about 7 years; for the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) in the Water Supply Division as a Natural Resource Specialist and Special Assistant to the Director for 6 years; and for the Public Utility Commission for over a year as an Enforcement Analyst coordinating with TCEQ and the Office of the Attorney General in helping abandoned utilities obtain a temporary manager or receiver. When she's not at work, she enjoys hiking, biking, swimming, and watching sporting events and playing in a softball league. Emily also enjoys hanging out with her friends and trying different local breweries and coffee shops in Austin and the surrounding areas.
