Great Lakes Water Conference Speaker Profiles
25th Annual Great Lakes Water Conference
"Water Security and the Great Lakes Region"
Friday, Oct. 31, 2025
Evan C. Zoldan
Evan C. Zoldan is the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, Professor of Law, and Director of the Legal Institute of the Great Lakes at the University of Toledo College of Law. He researches legislation and administrative law, including separation of powers, statutory interpretation, and state institutions. He is also the coauthor of a case book on State and Local Government. Professor Zoldan received his law degree, cum laude, from Georgetown University Law Center. After law school, Professor Zoldan served as law clerk to judges on the United States Court of Federal Claims and the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. Before joining the faculty of Toledo Law, he worked as an associate at Kirkland & Ellis LLP and as a trial attorney for the United States Department of Justice. He received his B.A., summa cum laude, from New York University.
Panel One
Michael Tiboris
Dr. Michael Tiboris is a writer, educator, and water policy analyst specializing in water resource conflict, agriculture, and hydropolitics. He lectures on water politics at the University of Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy and the University of Wisconsin's Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, and is Director of Agriculture and Water Policy at River Alliance of Wisconsin. He was a resident Global Water Fellow at the Chicago Council between 2015 and 2019, where his research was recognized by the University of Pennsylvania's Go-To Think Tank Index Report as among the best produced in 2016. Dr. Tiboris has a PhD in applied ethics and political philosophy from the University of California San Diego.
Warigia Bowman
Warigia M. Bowman (JD, PhD) currently teaches water law, administrative law, natural resources and property at the University of New Mexico School of Law. Her work has been cited in the New York Times, and she is a sought-after expert in infrastructure, water and regulation who has been interviewed by PBS, CNN, Democracy Now and Newsweek. Bowman has published widely on water, infrastructure, telecommunications and regulatory issues. She has consulted for the Kenyan Government, USAID, the United Nations, and the U.S. State Department. Before joining The University of New Mexico, she taught at the University of Tulsa, the American University in Cairo, Egypt during the revolution of 2011, as well as at the University of Mississippi, the University of Arkansas and Kabarak University in Kenya. In 2023, she published a book with Palgrave McMillan Digital Development in East Africa: The Distribution, Diffusion, and Governance of Information Technology Bowman was recently appointed to the City of Albuquerque Water Protection Advisory Commission.
Heather Tanana
Heather Tanana (Diné) is a law professor at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law. She is also an associate faculty member of with the Center for Indigenous Health at Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health. Heather's research interests revolve around the intersection of environmental and health policy. Much of her work focuses on tribal water issues, from climate change impacts to Colorado River management. She also leads the Universal Access to Clean Water initiative, which seeks to bring awareness to the lack of clean, safe, and reliable drinking water in Indian country and to make tangible progress on securing water access for all tribal communities.
Panel Two
Logan Glasenapp
Logan Glasenapp focuses his practice at von Briesen & Roper on Environmental Law. He works with clients on due diligence in real estate and business transactions, environmental permitting and enforcement defense. His state and federal regulatory compliance work includes advising on the evolving regulatory landscape of PFAS, the Spill Law, Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Superfund, TSCA, and FIFRA. In addition to regulatory compliance, Logan counsels clients on available state and federal environmental incentive programs. Prior to joining von Briesen, Logan served as Associate Regional Counsel for Region 5 of the Environmental Protection Agency and as a Staff Attorney for the New Mexico Wilderness Alliance. During law school he earned a Natural Resources Certificate, received the Eileen Gauna Natural Resources and Environmental Law Program award and was Submissions Editor of the Natural Resources Journal.
Christen Maccone
Christen T. Maccone is an Assistant Corporation Counsel for Environmental Law Division of the New York City Law Department, where she represents the City in complex environmental litigation and regulatory matters, and counsels the various entities of the City through various areas of environmental law. Her work spans issues of water quality including the City's watershed regulations and stormwater program, environmental review under City, New York State, and federal requirements, and CERCLA remediations. Christen currently serves as a Co-Chair of the American Bar Association Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources (SEER) Water Resources Committee. In this role, she helps lead national discussions on emerging water law and policy issues including climate resilience, infrastructure, and allocation issues. Christen credits her passion for water protection to her work prior to law school with the New York City Department of Environmental Protection - the City's regulatory environmental agency, drinking water, stormwater, and wastewater utility.
Casey B. McCormack
Casey B. McCormack is Senior Counsel for Environmental Compliance and Watershed Regulatory Affairs at the New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP). In this role, she counsels the agency on a wide range of federal and state laws and regulations, including the Safe Drinking Water Act, the Surface Water Treatment Rule, the Clean Water Act, the New York State Environmental Conservation Law, and the Federal Aviation Administration’s Part 107 drone regulations. She also negotiates and manages consent orders and decrees governing New York City’s water supply system. Raised in a beach town, Casey has long been passionate about clean water. She began her career with the City at age 17 as an Ocean Lifeguard for the Parks Department and returned to public service seven years ago to join DEP.
Kasey Faust
Dr. Kasey M. Faust is an Associate Professor & John A. Focht Centennial Teaching Fellow in Civil Engineering in the Fariborz Maseeh Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, where she researches sociotechnical projects with a primary focus on water sector infrastructure and improving access to basic necessities for communities. Her work addresses critical challenges facing infrastructure, such as aging and decaying systems, insufficient access, lack of funding for capital projects, workforce constraints, or exposure to frequent and severe hazards. She studies infrastructure systems through a sociotechnical systems lens to improve the delivery of safe and reliable services, advancing our understanding of resiliency and proposing impact-driven, novel physical, managerial, and operational solutions. Her work applies systems thinking approaches with mixed quantitative and qualitative methods to explore not only the technical aspects of infrastructure but also the operating environment, human-infrastructure interactions, and institutional conditions that impact those systems. Much of her work focuses on operating environments and events—chronic, protracted, and acute—which force infrastructure and utilities to operate far beyond design conditions. Dr. Faust's contributions have been recognized through numerous prestigious awards, including the Daniel W. Halpin Award for Scholarship in Construction and multiple Best Paper Awards. With over 100 peer-reviewed publications and substantial research funding as Principal or Co-Principal Investigator, she has established herself as a leading expert in infrastructure research. She serves on numerous editorial boards and professional committees, including as past Chair of the ASCE Construction Research Council Executive Committee. Her mentorship has guided many doctoral and master's students to successful positions in academia and industry. She holds a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Purdue University, master's degrees in both Industrial Engineering and Civil Engineering from Purdue, and an undergraduate degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Washington.