Articles by Vanessa Leiby

11. WWEMA Window: Where's The Funding? 4/27/2015

    Cherry trees in full bloom, Water Week, the U.S. Water Prize, the WWEMA Water Challenge, and a Congressional Technology Exposition all provided an exciting backdrop to the WWEMA Washington Forum April 13 to 15 in Washington, D.C.

12. WWEMA Window: 'Buy American' March To The Sea 1/21/2015

    Many of you may have grown up in the decades where your perfectly reasonable teenage parental “ask” was met with the story of lemmings blindly following their leader over the cliff to their death at sea.

13. WWEMA Window: Do You Have A Seat At The Table? 11/14/2014

    What do a national expert in water reuse, a motivational speaker, a Chinese technology accelerator program operator, and an entertaining economist have in common?

14. WWEMA Window: The Need For Change 9/3/2014

    In the last week, I sent my youngest daughter off to her freshman year at Lafayette College in Pennsylvania and my oldest daughter, a junior at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania, off to Salamanca, Spain, to study abroad for three months. While these were much anticipated opportunities, they also came with a lot of questions, worries, and angst.  Change is never easy!

15. Social Media In The Workplace – Friend Or Foe? 5/14/2014

    Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube — these are just a few of the more popular social media sites that have found their way into the workplace. In fact, use of these sites has begun to blur the distinction between home and office, particularly with the ubiquitous presence of personal devices such as Droids and iPhones. By Vanessa M. Leiby, WWEMA Executive Director

16. WWEMA Window: Why 'Buy American' May Be Bad For America 3/19/2014

    “Buy American” is a sound bite that conjures up an image of a Norman Rockwell painting, motherhood, and apple pie. Ask most people on the street, in our state houses, and on Capitol Hill whether “Buy American” is good, and I suspect most peoples’ immediate response would be … “Of course it’s a good thing.” While it is good to promote the purchase of American-made goods, there is another very important side to this issue that is so much more complex and challenging than what can be conveyed in a simple sound bite. By Vanessa Leiby, Executive Director, WWEMA