Megan Elwell
Chair
Lance Hill
Vice Chair
Casey Merkle
Secretary
Emily Morse
Treasurer
Board of Directors 2025-2026
Megan Elwell is an Assistant Project Manager at GZA GeoEnvironmental Inc. This is her second term as the RIFMA Board Chair.
Lance Hill, P.E. is a Vice President at Pare Corporation. This is his third term as Vice Chair for the RIFMA Board.
Casey Merkle is the Coordinator for the Wood-Pawcatuck Wild and Scenic Rivers Stewardship Council. This is her first term as Secretary for the RIFMA Board.
Emily Morse is the GIS Coordinator for the City of Pawtucket, RI. She has served on the board for several terms.
Rebecca Lamond
Member- at-Large
Ken Filarski
Member-at-Large
Chuck Lowe
Member-at-Large
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Greg Avenia
Member-at-Large
Rebecca is the Supervising Planner for North Kingstown. This is her second term on the RIFMA Board.
Igor Runge
Member-at-Large
Igor, having spent many years in academe and consulting, is an environmental engineer specializing in storm water runoff and nonpoint source pollution. He has served on the RIFMA board for many terms.
Anthony Hebert
Member-at-Large
Anthony Hebert is a project financing professional, managing clean water infrastructure and community resiliency programs at the RI Infrastructure Bank.
This is his first term on the RIFMA Board.
Ken Filarski, CFM, AICP, owns Filarski/ Architecture + Planning + Research. This is his fourth term on the RIFMA Board.
Art Gold
Member-at-Large
Art Gold is a retired professor of Watershed Hydrology who is active with the Providence Stormwater Innovation Center. His expertise includes the interactions of land use practices and natural features with water quality and river flow regimes
Bethany Murphy
Member-at-Large
Bethany Murphy is an Engineer at Pare Corporation in the Geotechnical Division, Hydrologic and Hydraulic (H&H) Modeling Group.
Chuck is a manager with the Builders Insurance Group. This is his fifth term on the RIFMA Board.
Camerin Bennett
Member-at-Large
Camerin is a project manager who currently works on development projects at RIDEM and has a background in planning, resiliency, remediation, and general environmental consulting. This is her first term on the RIFMA Board.
Greg Avenia, PE, CFM is a Project Manager and Senior Engineer at Kleinfelder. This is his first term on the RIFMA Board.
Bruce Lofgren
Member-at-Large
Bruce Lofgren, is a certified planner and a Coastal Policy Analyst at the Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Council.
This is his first term on the RIFMA Board.
Project Coordinator
Christina Truwit
Project Coordinator
Christina Truwit, CFM is the Project Coordinator for RIFMA. She also works as the Resilience Assistant for the City of Newport.