Environmental Compliance and Ecological Services
Bridging Policy, People, and Place for Ecosytem Resilience
About our Founder, Shari Anderson
Shari Anderson is a fisheries biologist and environmental compliance specialist who grew up in Southern Oregon and has a lifelong commitment to natural resource conservation. She holds a B.S. in Fisheries and Wildlife Science from Oregon State University and an M.S. in Fisheries Science from Cal Poly Humboldt, where she partnered with Tribal organizations to study coho salmon in the Klamath River.
Shari began her career in Alaska with the U.S. Forest Service, where healthy salmon runs sparked her passion for habitat protection and policy. She went on to serve 17 years with NOAA Fisheries, where she played a lead role in permitting the largest dam removal project in U.S. history. Her work to protect ESA-listed species during the Klamath Dam removal earned her NOAA Fisheries’ Employee of the Year award.
After 25 years of experience, Shari brings her experience in interagency collaboration, environmental permitting, and Tribal partnership to complex restoration and infrastructure projects across the West through Lazuli Eco.