Expanding ECT’s grant funding, stakeholder engagement, and environmental justice offering
October 25, 2024 – Chelsea Murphy joins Environmental Consulting & Technology, Inc. (ECT) as the Director of Project Funding and Engagement to expand and enhance essential project planning, funding, and engagement services necessary to assist clients with an increasingly complex competition for resources and qualified project teams.
“Chelsea can see the opportunity at hand for clients and communities through the ever-increasing and changing requirements,” said Chief Development Officer Keleigh Williams. “Her ability to assemble a comprehensive and effect strategy with all stakeholders in mind is essential to environmental, planning and redevelopment projects today, particularly those seeking or utilizing federal resources.”
As the need for front-end planning, funding, and engagement efforts increases, Chelsea will formalize and scale these services, making them available across the organization to support clients in their endeavors and to generate new project opportunities directly for ECT. In this role, she will strategically support both external public-sector growth as well as internal teams and service collaboration.
Prior to joining ECT, Chelsea was the President of CKM Environmental, a consulting practice she formed focused on restoration, conservation, resilience, , and natural resource projects, grant identification, writing, administration, and other advisory services. The Klamath Dam Decommissioning Project currently underway in Siskiyou County, CA, is a notable example of her work. In addition to CKM, Chelsea has held management and leadership roles with various industry consulting firms for over 17 years.
As CKM, Chelsea enjoyed an active partnership with ECT. An example of this is her instrumental role in ECT’s work with the Conneaut Port Authority in Conneaut, Ohio, which includes master planning for a port redevelopment effort, as well as a related coastal resilience plan, funded largely by a grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF).
Chelsea holds a B.S. in Biology and English Literature from the University of Nevada Reno. She currently resides outside of Albuquerque, New Mexico, and supports a national client base and wide range of agency and funding relationships resulting in projects from Florida to Illinois to California.
