Biography shannon cunniff osd

Shannon Cunniff is the Director of Coastal Resilience at the Environmental Defense Fund. Her areas of expertise include ecosystems, climate adaptation, natural infrastructure, rivers and deltas, and water engineering.

She worked for the federal government in these fields for 27 years.

Biography shannon cunniff osd

Background and Education

Cunniff has a Bachelor of Arts in Biology and a Master of Geography, both from the University of California, Los Angeles.^[1]

Career

Cunniff spent 27 years working for various federal agencies, and for eleven of those years, she was a senior executive.

She began her career with the Army Corps of Engineers, at which she was a district ecologist working on water resource projects. She then moved to the Environmental Protection Agency, where she served a variety of roles, including leading oversight of federal water and energy agencies under the National Environmental Policy Act and being the primary EPA liaison to the Army Corps of Engineers and the Federal Emerg