Author Description
Jaimie Galayda is the Lead Planner with Tucson Water’s Conservation and Stormwater Resources
Division. She led Tucson Water’s One Water 2100 integrated water resource planning effort over
the past four years. The plan was adopted in 2023 by Mayor and Council. It will guide the City’s
long range water supply and demand management strategies well into the future. Before joining
the water department, she was appointed as Mayor Jonathan Rothschild’s Planning, Transportation
& Sustainability Policy Advisor. She previously served as a Research Project Manager with
the Institute of the Environment at the University of Arizona and with Yudelson Associates, a
sustainability planning and consulting firm. Ms. Galayda earned a Ph.D. in Ecological Economics
from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY in 2006. She is also certified as a LEED AP in
Existing Buildings.
