Cecilia Jensen
Cecilia Jensen, Sustainability Program Manager for Sacramento County was the speaker for the Sacramento Sustainability Forum held at Rail Bridge Cellars on Thursday, September 17, 2009.
Ms. Jensen is a licensed civil engineer with over 23 years of experience in the environmental field. She holds two Bachelor’s degrees in Microbiology and Civil Engineering from California State University, Sacramento.
She has six years of experience in the private sector as a consulting engineer and joined the Sacramento Regional County Sanitation District in 1992. During her tenure with the District, Ms. Jensen served as the Recycled Water Program Manager and developed the program framework for the reuse of tertiary treated wastewater for landscape irrigation purposes in the Elk Grove area. With Sacramento County’s Department of Water Resources, she was the County’s Stormwater Program Manager and subsequently served as Division Chief of the Water Protection Division with the County’s Environmental Management Department. As Division Chief Ms. Jensen managed numerous regulatory compliance programs and was responsible for the development of an EPA award-winning industrial stormwater compliance program.
In October 2008, she became Sacramento County’s first Sustainability Program Manager which she has declared as the toughest assignment she has ever had.
Here are photos from the Rail Bridge Cellars Event.