On July 9, 2025, LRWP Board Member Heather Fenyk joined the 2024-2025 class of New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Watershed Ambassadors at Monmouth Battlefield to celebrate the graduation of these special humans. We were thrilled to be recognized as the NJDEP AmeriCorps Watershed Ambassadors Program “partner of the year.” The LRWP’s annual Green Brook Clean-up has grown to engage eight (8) municipalities through the partnership work with these Watershed Ambassadors – we should be thanking them!

A heartfelt thank you to the graduating 2024-2025 cohort:
Olivia Stettler: WMA 1, Team Leader
Jenna Black: WMA 2
Peyton Curley: WMA 3
Emilie Wigchers: WMA 4
Isaiah Leach: WMA 5
Toni L. Tamberelli: WMA 6
Kaitlyn Pinto: WMA 7
Daniel Magda: WMA 8
Brianna Casario: WMA 9, Team Leader
Claire Paul: WMA 10, Team Leader
Mike Sherr: WMA 11
Forrest Jennings: WMA 13
Cameron Shapiro: WMA 14, Team Leader
Morgan Crouch: WMA 15, Team Leader
Courtney Lacombe: WMA 16
David Ferrara: WMA 17
Jessie Lisanti: WMA 20
Emily Vasquez: SWP North
Sheyla Casco: SWP Central
Gina Freshcoln: SWP South

The AmeriCorps NJ Watershed Ambassadors Program is administered by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, Division of Water Monitoring, Standards and Pesticide Control. The goals of the program are to promote watershed stewardship through education and direct community involvement, and to monitor stream health through performing visual and biological assessments. Individual AmeriCorps members are assigned to each of New Jersey’s 20 watershed management areas (WMAs) to serve as “Watershed Ambassadors” to their watershed communities. In addition to the 20 full time Watershed Ambassadors, 3 part-time Source Water Protection Ambassadors are assigned to a region in Northern, Central, and Southern NJ. The Source Water Protection Ambassadors serve 900 hours from September – May, conducting education and stewardship projects that relate to sources of drinking water.

The LRWP LOVES our Watershed Ambassadors!