Kate Poole worked at the Natural Resources Defense Council for 19 years, leading the freshwater work and the wildlife work in NRDC’s Nature Program. During that time, she served as lead counsel for NRDC in multiple lawsuits seeking to reform the operations of the Central Valley Project and State Water Project to reduce their impacts on threatened and endangered fish and to revive the health of California’s rivers as a shared public resource. Before coming to NRDC, Ms. Poole was a partner with the law firm of Adams Broadwell Joseph & Cardozo and was of counsel at the Seattle office of Earthjustice. Ms. Poole graduated from the University of Michigan with a magna cum laude Bachelor’s degree in economics, and received a cum laude Juris Doctor from the University of Michigan Law School.