Monica Day is currently serving as the Director of Center for Sustainability and the Environment at Albion College. She brings to the watershed council expertise in watersheds, group process and decision making and nature interpretation. Formerly she was the coordinator of the Sandusky River Watershed Coalition where she engaged hundreds of watershed citizens in planning and actions through grassroots organizing and engagement. She earned her Master of Science from Michigan State University’s Department of Resource Development. Her thesis explored through quantitative and qualitative methods how leaders can discern when groups have reached stable and lasting decisions. The context of the research was cleanup of dioxin from the Tittabawassee River floodplain. During her tenure with Michigan State University Extension she provided water management educational materials and workshops for local officials and other community leaders. She was called to serve as an expert witness by the Environmental Law and Policy Center in the contested case regarding the 2020 rules for combined animal feeding operation because of her leadership in developing a field-scale pay for performance model and tool for producers to reduce phosphorus and nitrogen loads from agricultural fields in the River Raisin watershed. She started her river and watershed work while working for the Ohio Scenic Rivers Program as a stream quality monitoring coordinator conducting public programs on assessing stream health by assessing macroinvertebrate biodiversity in riffle areas on the Sandusky and Maumee rivers in northwest Ohio.