As Senior Program Manager for Watershed Outreach, Tali MacArthur brings over 20 years of experience to her roles advancing the mission of the Pennsylvania Organization for Watersheds and Rivers (POWR), a 509(a)-supporting organization of PEC, and coordinating the Pennsylvania Water Trails Partnership. She joined PEC in 2018 with a mandate to strengthen local efforts to protect Pennsylvania’s streams and rivers and to encourage opportunities for inclusive and accessible recreation in and along them.
Tali strives to build the organizational and technical capacity of Pennsylvania’s community watershed organizations and expand and strengthen the Water Trail Mangers Network. She brings her expertise in waterway and watershed restoration, conservation and community education and outreach, partnership and network building, and success-based storytelling to her work at PEC and POWR. She is adept at evaluating and assessing the organizational barriers and knowledge gaps facing groups trying to affect local change but also identifying their own as well as external assets and resources and using those to realize success.
Her previous professional roles include evaluating policy, permitting, and programmatic approaches to protecting coastal waters at Jersey Department of Environmental Protection’s Coastal Zone Management Program and managing the Coldwater Heritage Grant Program at the Pennsylvania Council of Trout Unlimited. Tali holds a Master of Marine Affairs degree from the University of Washington and a Bachelor of Science in Marine Science from the University of South Carolina Honors College. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and a Senior Fellow of the Environmental Leadership Program.