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Cadiz Board of Directors Establishes New Equity, Sustainability and Environmental Justice Committee
LOS ANGELES, March 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Cadiz Inc. (Nasdaq: CDZI/CDZIP) ("Cadiz" or the "Company"), is pleased to announce that the Company's Board
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[{"type":"text","content":"LOS ANGELES, March 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Cadiz Inc. (Nasdaq: CDZI/CDZIP) (\"Cadiz\" or the \"Company\"), is pleased to announce that the Company's Board of Directors has formed a new Equity, Sustainability, and Environmental Justice Committee (\"ESEJ Committee\"), effective immediately. The ESEJ Committee will focus on elevating the Company's mission dedicated to delivering water supply, storage, and conveyance opportunities equitably, especially to underserved communities, and ensuring Cadiz's projects, programs, and policies are sustainable and support communities that lack equitable access to water and the many quality-of-life benefits reliable water provides. \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \nThe ESEJ Committee will be chaired by Board Member Carolyn Webb de Macias, and include two additional non-executive board members, Maria Echaveste and Winston Hickox. The Committee will oversee the Company's development, implementation, and maintenance of policies, programs, and practices with respect to sustainability, environmental protection, environmental justice, equity, diversity, inclusion, and community engagement.\nDirector Webb de Macías is a community leader from Los Angeles County with an extensive career in public policy, higher education, and community engagement. Director Webb de Macías currently serves as Board Chair for the Partnership for Los Angeles Schools, a non-profit organization that manages 19 schools through a Memorandum of Understanding with the Los Angeles Unified School District, and as a Member of the Board of the Community Coalition of South Los Angeles, a community education and advocacy organization. Previously, Director Webb de Macías served in the office of Elementary and Secondary Education in the US Department of Education as an appointee of President Barack Obama from 2010-2012. Director Webb de Macías has been honored for her work in the community and was named a Black Woman of Achievement by the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund. \nDirector Webb de Macías commented on her appointment as Chair of the Cadiz ESEJ Committee: \"In 2014, California recognized water as a human right, yet communities across the Los Angeles area – one of the wealthiest metropolitan areas in the world - still lack access to clean, reliable water when they turn on the tap. I am proud to chair the Cadiz ESEJ committee...