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The Grant Is Won Before the Application Opens
TFG built a Washington business around a deceptively practical idea: towns should shape projects for federal money long before a deadline turns strategy into paperwork.
Rincon Strategies knows who gets a vote
A California public affairs firm turns water worries, housing proposals and election arithmetic into campaigns. Its newest tool watches the paperwork; its oldest advantage is knowing the people.
Convey makes the public part of public works
A civil engineer built a communications agency around a stubborn problem: a technically sound project still has to make sense to the people who live with it.
Cannon makes the places we take for granted work
A flooded street, an aging pier, a launch facility: Cannon builds its business around the engineering details that make places usable. After 50 years, the interesting story is still in the work.
Alyson Watson
Alyson Watson is the CEO and Chair of the Board of Woodard & Curran, a Portland, Maine-based integrated science, engineering, design-build, and operations firm specializing in water and environmental challenges. A Stanford-trained chemical engineer and licensed PE, she became the firm's third CEO in 2021 — and its first woman to hold that title — after more than 20 years leading water resources projects and building environmental consulting teams across the western United States. A self-described 'water brat' with roots in the industry, Watson is a passionate advocate for clean water access, outcome-based contracting, and employee ownership, guiding a firm of 1,300 people across 27 offices nationwide.