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Cadiz Inc. Announces Nomination of Two New Independent Directors
LOS ANGELES, April 04, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Cadiz Inc. (NASDAQ:CDZI) (the "Company") announced today that its Board of Directors has nominated two
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[{"type":"text","content":"LOS ANGELES, April 04, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Cadiz Inc. (NASDAQ:CDZI) (the \"Company\") announced today that its Board of Directors has nominated two prominent Californians, Maria Echaveste and Carolyn Webb de Macías, to stand for election as directors at its upcoming 2019 Annual Meeting of Stockholders. The Annual Meeting will be held this summer and the Company expects to distribute its meeting materials, including the Proxy Statement and ballot, next month.\"I am extremely pleased that our Board has nominated Maria and Carolyn to join the Company's Board of Directors. Both women have enjoyed exceptional professional careers and have invaluable experience in solving transcendent public policy issues. Their backgrounds and qualifications make them the perfect candidates to help guide the Company in its efforts to provide clean, reliable and affordable water to Californians,\" said Scott Slater, Cadiz CEO.\"These nominations reflect the Company's commitment to build a Board that is personally connected to the unique Californian struggle to develop solutions to the systemic water supply shortages that have ravaged the State for over a decade,\" said Winston Hickox, Chair of the Board's Nominating Committee. \"Maria and Carolyn bring both historical experience and principled passionate advocacy for the people and businesses the Company aims to benefit with its projects. We couldn't be prouder they have chosen to join us on this journey.\"Maria Echaveste is a scholar with a distinguished career working as a community leader, public policy advisor, lecturer, senior White House official, and attorney. She is presently President and CEO of the Opportunity Institute, a non-profit working to increase economic and social mobility focused on equity for the most vulnerable communities. Echaveste has been affiliated with UC Berkeley in various capacities since 2004 including: lecturing at the School of Law and in the undergraduate division on immigration and education; serving as program and policy director of the Law School's Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy from 2006 -2012; serving as a Senior Fellow at UC Berkeley's Center for Latin American Studies since 2008; and as a Visiting Scholar with the Berkeley Food Institute from 2015-2016. Previously, from 1998 to 2001 Echaveste served as Assistant to the Presid...