Jayla Poppleton is the Resilient Water & Watersheds Director at the Western Resilience Center (formerly known as Yampa Valley Sustainability Council). She came to this role after serving as the Executive Director at Water Education Colorado (WEco), the state’s leading organization for informing and engaging Coloradans on water issues. Jayla also serves on the Advisory Council for the One World One Water Center at Metro State University.
Prior to her role as Executive Director, Jayla oversaw WEco’s full suite of print and digital content programming; for nine years, she was senior editor of the organization’s flagship publication, Headwaters Magazine. She has written extensively on all things water, and it continues to be the subject she is most passionate about.
Jayla holds a Bachelor’s degree in technical journalism with a specialization in natural resources management from Colorado State University. She lives in Denver with her husband and three sons, and enjoys traveling and recreating in Colorado’s great outdoors—especially in, on, or around water.