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COLLABORATIVE LEADERSHIP PROJECT ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEW: DEREK SANDISON
About this film
The Collaborative Leadership Project (a project of the University of Washington’s Center for Urban Waters, CUW/Puget Sound Institute, PSI) has conducted and filmed oral history interviews with conveners, sponsors, participants, and practitioners from landmark natural resource collaborations conducted in the state of Washington (WA) since the mid-1970s. The goal of the Project is to capture and document as much insight and as many recollections as possible, before anything else is lost to retirements, fading memories, and other losses; and to archive these digitized oral histories. The original copies are housed in the University of Washington Libraries Special Collections. More information on the Project is available at https://www.pugetsoundinstitute.org/collaboration/collaborative-leadership-project/ . Derek has been Director of the Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) since 2015. Before that, he was a Regional Director for the Washington State Department of Ecology (ECY), and was the First Director for ECY’s Office of the Columbia River (OCR). Derek discussed the OCR, how its impetus began in the administration of Governor Locke in 2005, but it was not approved unti…
Directors & creators
Interviewee: Derek Sandison, Interviewer: Jennifer Huntley, Videographer: Michael Peters
Subjects
Collaborative Governance, American Indian Tribes, Collaboration, Conflict Resolution, Dispute Resolution, Environment, Facilitation, Mediation, Natural Resources, Public Policy, Washington State, Washington State Department of Agriculture, Office of the Columbia River, Lake Roosevelt Incremental Storage Agreement, Odessa Groundwater Replacement Project, Yakima Basin Integrated Plan
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