Mimi Charles

Mimi has more than 20 years of public involvement experience. Her current public involvement work includes the Provo Canyon, Wildwood to Deer Creek project and the Federal Highway Administration’s and Idaho Transportation Department’s Timmerman to Ketchum Environmental Analysis. Mimi’s community media and public relations work has included Jordan Valley Water Conservancy District “Slow the Flow” water conservation education campaign, Utah County I-15 Corridor Management Plan Study, and Kennecott Development Company’s “Sunrise” project.

Mimi has strong analytical and communication skills. Previous to her employment at WF&Co.., Mimi was a project manager for Bear West Company, an environmental land-use planning firm in Salt Lake City. As project manager, Mimi gained extensive experience in client, stakeholder, public, government and community relations, National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) implementation, public involvement and project management. Mimi’s responsibilities included NEPA implementation consultation, NEPA public involvement, meeting facilitation and document preparation in large public projects such as the Bureau of Land Management’s preparation of the Questar, Williams and Kern River Pipeline Expansion Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), the U.S. Forest Service’s preparation of the Brighton Ski Resort EIS and the development of resource management plans for U.S. Bureau of Reclamation’s Lost Creek Reservoir, Starvation Reservoir, Deer Creek Reservoir and Willard Bay Reservoir.

Prior to working for Bear West, Mimi served as Salt Lake City Mayor Palmer DePaulis’s Deputy Chief of Staff and Utah Governor Scott M. Matheson’s Executive Assistant. In both capacities, Mimi was involved in long- and short-range public policy development and local, regional and national intergovernmental relations and public and community involvement. Mimi is a member of IAP2, the International Association of Public Participation.