Anna Lenaker is a Research Associate at the Pacific Institute. At the Institute, she works to advance water resilience in California, with a focus on corporate water stewardship, public-private partnerships, and state water policy. She also supports research on water reuse and equity and supports other basin-scale collaboratives alongside the California Water Resilience Initiative. Prior to joining the Pacific Institute, Anna authored case studies on Tribal water rights and governance on the Wind River Indian Reservation, and on the decline of the Great Salt Lake. She is a founding member of the annual Wind River Water Forum and, as a Luce Scholar, was a visiting researcher at Japan’s Research Institute for Humanity and Nature. Anna has a bachelor’s degree in Religious Studies and a Master of Public Affairs from Brown. She also holds a Master of Environmental Management from the Yale School of the Environment, where she specialized in climate change science and water resource science and management.