Joshua Bradt, CO-Director
Josh Bradt is a professional environmental planner and project manager who has worked on Bay Area creek and watershed issues for over 20 years. Josh’s current work at the San Francisco Estuary Partnership focuses on green infrastructure policy, planning, and practice. Prior to this, he spearheaded the creation of the City of Berkeley’s Citywide Watershed Management Plan. Josh was Executive Director and Restoration Director of the non-profit Urban Creeks Council, managing all aspects of numerous restoration projects that promote creeks as community assets. He has also worked as a Watershed Specialist for the Contra Costa Countywide Clean Water Program, facilitating municipal compliance with federal Clean Water Act requirements. Josh has a B.A. in Political Science from the University of North Carolina.
Ann Riley, CO-DIRECTOR
Dr. Ann Riley has organized, planned, designed ,constructed and funded stream restoration projects in California and other regions of the United States. Her involvement with non-profit work at the community level countrywide spans over thirty years. She has also worked for local, state and federal agencies for over 40 years in watershed planning , water quality, water conservation, hydrology, flood management, stream science and restoration. A feature of both her private and public sector work has been to provide jobs and training for conservation and youth corps. In 1982 she co-founded the Urban Creeks Council in California and in 1993 was instrumental in organizing the first conference of the Coalition to Restore Urban Waters, a national network of urban stream and river organizations. She began a program in the California Department of Water Resources in 1984 that continues to provide grants to support urban stream restoration. Awards recognizing her work include an American Rivers award in 1993 for her leadership in establishing a national urban river movement, the California Governors’ Environmental and Economic Leadership award in 2003, and the Salmonid Restoration Federation’s Restorationist of the Year Award in 2004. She began her association with river scientist Luna Leopold in Washington D.C. in 1971 and completed two graduate degrees under his direction at the University of California, Berkeley. She is an urban farmer at her residence in Sebastopol, California raising chickens, bees, growing food, and brewing award-wining mead and beer.
Jessica Hall, outreach & restoration Director
Jessica is a creekfreak! In 2008 she co-founded the blog LA Creekfreak with other LA-based writers, artists and designers looking to advocate, restore, and celebrate the region’s waterways. Jessica finds mapping historical streams, uncovering ecological histories, and planning and designing the restoration or recovery of these features and landscapes in our contemporary environment rewarding, nourishing, and exciting: a great way to spend a day! She spent over a decade advocating for and demonstrating the restoration feasibility of urban stream restoration and daylighting in LA, and counts one successfully completed restoration for (all) that effort. As CUSP’s Restoration and Policy Director, she supports the Streamside Management for Property Landowner (SMPL) program in Contra Costa County and contributes to CUSP’s mission to restore urbanized streams throughout the Bay Area. She is also part-time staff with SWCA Environmental Consultants Inc, and now lives in Eureka, California.
Eleanor Clark, Restoration & outreach manager
Eleanor grew up in Houston, Texas, where a curiosity about the natural world set her on a path toward a career dedicated to restoring and protecting it. She pursued that passion at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF), graduating in 2018 with a B.S. in Environmental Resource Engineering with a concentration in ecology and ecological design. Eleanor began her career at Environmental Design and Research, spending two years honing her technical skills in erosion and sediment control and stormwater management for municipal and renewable energy projects. A year-long internship with the Salmon Protection and Watershed Network (SPAWN) then brought her into the field, where she fell in love with the hands-on work of habitat restoration, plant planning, and monitoring the local flora and fauna of California's watersheds. That experience led her to Environmental Science Associates (ESA), where over four years she deepened her expertise in habitat restoration modeling, water resource modeling, and ecological survey techniques on projects throughout the Bay Area. Today, Eleanor channels this experience into her role as Stream Restoration Outreach Manager at CUSP, connecting communities to the vital work of stream restoration. When she's not in the field, she can be found hiking with her dog, competing in team sports, getting out on the water, or experimenting in the kitchen with the native edible plants she encounters along the way.
etyan stanton, creek restoration site manager
Eytan Stanton is a landscape designer whose work integrates ecological restoration, participatory design, and community-based stewardship. Before attending university, he apprenticed at regenerative farms, worked in conservation, and helped organize a community garden in his neighborhood. In 2024, he graduated from the UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design with Highest Honors and a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture. Since then, he has received multiple fellowships to support ecological initiatives in Berkeley, Berlin, and the Bronx. Notably, he led the Kingman Hall Creek Restoration, which stabilized 100 feet of failing streambank, enhanced native habitat, and engaged over 150 community members in ecological education. His design and research projects are included in public collections such as the New York Botanical Garden and Floating University. Through his academic and professional work, he has developed expertise in ecological restoration, community engagement, project management, and landscape design.
