San Francisco Bay Area Chapter

Our Mentoring program works tirelessly to connect women in all stages of their careers to learn from and teach each other. The small mentor groups curated by the Mentorship Committee fosters these connections. The Mentoring Committee provides trainings for “mentors” on how to really dig into their roles both as teacher and student, and helps find opportunities for “mentees” to learn from and connect with women who have more experience and want to share. The mentorship events range from simple opportunities for connection to more formal trainings. The Mentoring program helps build meaningful relationships that benefit participants both professionally and personally.

The San Francisco Bay Area Chapter is led by a small, but dedicated group of women hoping to grow our community of women working together to lift each other up as we climb in our careers, personal lives, and understanding of the ever changing/growing environmental field.

Our Networking program seeks out new and different opportunities for women to connect with each other on personal and professional levels in an environment that feels comfortable and free of the oppressive notion of what “networking” is supposed to be. The networking events provide opportunities for women to connect in meaningful ways without the transactional or exploitive component so often presumed to be a requirement for expanding one’s network. From Happy Hours to chocolate tastings, the Networking events always strive to provide something fun, interesting, and inclusive for everyone.

 Our Professional Development program provides women opportunities to learn more and connect with experts on a wide range of topics within the environmental, personal development, career development fields. The Professional Development Committee hosts events with diverse voices and perspectives from specific subject matter experts, community organizations, and regulatory agencies on topics that matter to our community including Environmental Justice, wildfires, community engagement in the environmental sciences, investment in green tech, and sea level rise, just to name a few.

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Meet our Board of Directors

  • Sadie McGarvey

    PRESIDENT

    Sadie McGarvey is a Wildlife Biologist and Senior Regulatory Specialist at Johnson Marigot Consulting. She has a bachelor’s degree in Wildlife Biology from Humboldt State University and holds state and federal permits to work with California red-legged frog and California tiger salamander. She enjoys facilitating personal/professional growth opportunities and meaningful relationships through WIE, “lifting as we climb” to support and encourage women (and all marginalized groups) in the environmental industry.

  • Megan Hall

    VICE PRESIDENT | PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT CHAIR

    Megan is a Senior Environmental Scientist at the California Coastal Commission. She holds a bachelor’s degree in biology from Duke University and a Ph.D. in marine biology from the University of Southern California. Megan is the Vice President of the Bay Area Chapter of WIE and the Chair of the Bay Area Professional Development Committee. She has loved being involved in WIE because of the great professional development opportunities and the community of like-minded women that have become part of her network.

  • Tina Hoang

    TREASURER

    Tina is an environmental health consultant at Geosyntec Consultants. She specializes in human health risk assessment for product safety & compliance, environmental remediation, and industrial hygiene. She’s been involved with WiE since 2018 and credits her WIE mentor group for keeping her sane and encouraging self-advocacy.

  • Morgan Petrovich

    SECRETARY

    Morgan is a Senior Associate Consultant at Exponent, Inc. in the Environmental and Earth Sciences practice. She received her Bachelor's degree in Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning from the University of California, Berkeley, and her Master's degree and Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Northwestern University. Morgan serves on the Bay Area Networking Committee.

    She has found the most valuable aspects of WIE to be the networking opportunities with environmental professionals from a wide variety of career stages and areas of expertise, through networking events like happy hours as well as through mentoring groups.

  • Gwen Santos

    MENTORING CO-CHAIR

    Gwen Santos serves as the Director of Ecology & Regulatory for RES’ Western Region. Gwen is a Natural Resources Manager with over 20 years of experience in habitat restoration, species conservation, and regulatory compliance throughout the Western United States. Gwen is the lead ecologist for RES’ restoration team for the Klamath River Renewal Project. Gwen supervises and manages a comprehensive program of regulatory compliance and ecological investigations for over 55 projects for the Western Region. Gwen is a practiced mentor working with national and regional groups including the U.S. Department of State's TechWomen International Fellow Program and now serves as the San Francisco Bay Area Mentoring Committee Co-Chair for Women In Environment (WIE).

  • Carolina Zuri

    MENTORING CO-CHAIR

    Carolina is a Senior Environmental Engineer at Integral Consulting, and works on groundwater remediation, storm water and litigation support matters. She has been part of the Bay Area leadership board and of the mentoring committee since the beginning of the Bay Area chapter. Her WIE experience has been incredibly empowering and she is looking forward to passing this on to many other young women.

  • Steffany Aguilar

    NETWORKING CHAIR

    Steffany is an environmental geologist at Farallon Consulting, with over 7 years of experience. Her expertise includes Phase I Environmental Site Assessments, site characterizations, remediation activities, compliance, and Federal Emergency Management Agency natural disaster response. Steffany is an advocate for BIPOC women in STEM and volunteers in the community for Scientific Adventures for Girls. She joined WIE in 2019 and has been the networking chair since 2023. WIE had helped her develop her networking skills and connect with other women in the San Francisco Bay environmental field.