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Anna L. West is co-founder, principal and senior mediator at Kearns & West, Inc. with more than 30 years of experience using facilitation, mediation, public involvement and outreach strategies to generate collaborative solutions in the fields of energy, natural resource management, infrastructure and the environment. Her efforts have enabled stakeholders to bridge differences and develop sustainable, robust outcomes that address as many stakeholders’ interests as possible.
Anna has designed and managed a variety of collaborative solutions programs with Kearns & West, including an intensive multi-year negotiated process and stakeholder engagement effort to establish new federal rules for hydroelectric relicensing. Recent assignments include public involvement and outreach for the Transmission Agency of Northern California’s 600-mile transmission line and PacifiCorp’s Walla Walla to McNary transmission line, facilitation of an eight-state Missouri River Ecosystem Restoration Program collaboration for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and facilitating a multi-year settlement negotiation for Eugene Water and Electric Board’s Carmen-Smith Hydro Project relicensing.
Anna has worked on multiple public collaborative assignments that bring together diverse stakeholder groups or involve sensitive public involvement and outreach. She has managed processes that involve aquatics, natural resource issues, land management issues, social and cultural issues, and economic development issues. Her work includes site-specific projects and planning efforts, such as hydroelectric facilities relicensing, resource management planning, transmission line, power plant and other facility sitings, and regional and local natural resource and environmental planning efforts. At the national policy level, Anna has coordinated complex collaborative processes associated with the Endangered Species Act, the Federal Power Act, the Clean Water Act and cultural resource policy.
Anna is based in Kearns & West’s San Francisco office. She holds a B.A. in psychology from Mount Holyoke College and an M.S. in communications from Boston University. She is also certified by the Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution as a senior mediator.
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