Faith Sternlieb
Associate Director, Global Engagement, Internet Of Water
Tucson, Arizona, United States
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Top SchoolFaith Sternlieb is an experienced water policy and geospatial engagement leader with a decade-long track record of building partnerships that modernize water data systems for equitable resource allocation and climate resilience. As Associate Director for Global Engagement on the Internet of Water at the Lincoln Institute, she designs trust-centered strategies to navigate sensitive multilateral data-sharing conversations and operationalize participatory decision-making. Her background spans academic research, postdoctoral work on secondary cities, and applied roles at USGS and Colorado Water Institute, giving her a rare blend of technical GIS expertise and policy-savvy program management. Faith’s work emphasizes incremental, community-centered solutions that strengthen land and water security across scales, from municipal planning to international governance. Fluent in Spanish and grounded in interdisciplinary scholarship (PhD in Earth Sciences, water policy), she brings both curiosity and diplomatic listening to complex stakeholder environments. An early-career Peace Corps volunteer and international researcher, she pairs on-the-ground perspective with systems-level thinking to translate data into actionable governance.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Earth Sciences with a specialty in Water Policy, PhD, Earth Sciences with a specialty in Water Policy at Colorado State UniversitySpanish, Spanish at West Virginia UniversityBA, Anthropology, Latin American Studies, BA, Anthropology, Latin American Studies at University of Maryland
English, Spanish, PortugueseProgramming languages (2)
Github contributions (2)
state-hiu/SecondaryCities2
May 2016 - Aug 2016
The new Secondary Cities website
Contributions:85 commits, 85 pushes in 3 months
secondary
state-hiu/2C-GeoNode
Oct 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:22 comments in 8 days
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