Mitch Tobin, owner of Sea to Snow Consulting, evaluates grant making for foundations and helps clients with their communications needs. From 1998 to 2006, Mitch covered water and other environmental issues for the Napa Valley Register, Tucson Citizen, Arizona Daily Star, and High Country News. As a consultant at California Environmental Associates, Mitch helped write the Design to Win report and served as communications officer at the ClimateWorks Foundation. From 2010 through 2014, Mitch led the evaluation of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation’s Western Conservation subprogram and created EcoWest.org to track environmental trends in the region.