The 2025 StormCon keynote speaker, Sarah Matin, who is the Region 5 director for the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) discusses how the stormwater sector can improve. In 2025, ASCE gave stormwater a "D," which is the same score the sector received in 2021. Matin discusses how factors, such as a national stormwater database, can improve stormwater management throughout the country.
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Katie Johns, editor-in-chief of Stormwater Solutions, graduated from the University of Missouri in 2016 with a Bachelor of Journalism and a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish. Johns joined the Stormwater Solutions team in September 2019. Johns also helps plan the annual StormCon conference and co-hosts the Talking Under Water podcast. Prior to entering the B2B industry, she worked as a newspaper reporter and editor in Sarasota, Florida, and a magazine assistant editor in the Chicago suburbs. She can be reached at [email protected].