Currently serving as the Sustainable Landscape Program Watershed Coordinator for the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Watershed Council, Drew coordinates sustainable landscape advocacy, outreach and education efforts. He is responsible for organizing an annuals series of Sustainable Landscape Design and Maintenance Seminars for landscape architects and designers. Among his other accomplishments at the Watershed Council, he created the Plant Profiler, an online database and website that contains photos and information about native plant ecotypes for landscaping and restoration. Drew has also developed and distributed a series of invasive plant education materials that are used to inspire action from the public on the issue – those can be found at our WeedWatch website.

Prior to joining the Watershed Council, Drew worked as project manager for the Return of the Natives Restoration Project, the education and outreach arm of the Watershed Institute of California State University Monterey Bay. He managed a large scale native plant nursery and coordinated regional watershed symposia and K-College teacher training events. Along with planning and implementing riparian cleanup and habitat restoration projects with under-represented communities in the city of Salinas, he was instrumental in organizing an annual series of community-based habitat restoration events with the Fort Ord Public Lands Bureau of Land Management.

Drew graduated from CSU, Monterey Bay in 1999 with a Bachelors Degree in Visual and Public Art where he focused on land art and ecologically themed sculpture and photography. In his senior year, Drew was awarded the CSU, Monterey Bay Community Service Learning Award.