Katie Schmidt

Katie Schmidt is the Director of the National Dam Removal Program at American Rivers, where she coordinates and implements federal policy for dam removal and works with federal agency partners. She also coordinates the National Dam Removal Community of Practice and develops tools and resources for dam removal practitioners. Katie has focused much of her work on hydropower reform and hydropower dam removal. As a former Fellow with American Rivers, Katie researched and wrote a guide to removing federally regulated hydropower dams. Katie completed her Master’s in Environmental Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University with an emphasis in hydrology and natural resources policy, aiming to remove dams to restore the rivers.