Lauren Steely

Metropolitan Water District, Associate Resource Specialist

Lauren Steely is a water resources analyst and data scientist with a passion for turning data into policy. Her work focuses on the science and economics of agricultural water use in the western U.S., especially the Colorado River Basin. She received an MS from UC Santa Barbara, where she participated in the Sustainable Water Markets program at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management. Having lived in Los Angeles since 2001, she is an avid desert canyoneer and a musician.