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Meet Our Team
The Lower Susquehanna Riverkeeper Association's team is a group of passionate environmental professionals committed to preserving and protecting our waterways. Their expertise in conservation, advocacy, and community engagement plays a vital role in ensuring the long-term health of our rivers.
Ted Evgeniadis
Lower Susquehanna Riverkeeper
and LSRA Executive Director
Ted serves as the Lower Susquehanna Riverkeeper (LSR) and works as an alliance builder, diplomat, and educator, but also, when the situation calls for it, an unrelenting defender and advocate of our right and the river’s right to be healthy and prosperous. Ted utilizes education, chemical and biological monitoring, pollution patrols, partnership building, public events, research and legal action to improve the health of the Susquehanna’s waterways.
Ted assists the government by reporting non-compliance of the law, and follows through where environmental protection agencies are unable to do their job due to politics or funding issues.
Ted Evgeniadis, One of York County’s Most Influential People for 2023: Activism & Social Justice
2023 Waterkeeper Outstanding Win Award: Ted Evgeniadis, Lower Susquehanna Riverkeeper
Ted Evgeniadis: Riverkeeper training started as kid, ‘We creek stomped every creek we could find’
Aaron Dixon
Program Manager
Aaron grew up calling York County home. After graduating from Red Lion High School, he developed a passion for kayaking on the Susquehanna. This passion led him to work with Shank’s Mare Outfitters, starting as a “boat-slinger” and eventually becoming a river guide/kayaking instructor.
During his time with Shank’s Mare Outfitters, Aaron volunteered with LSRA. While volunteering and working on the river, Aaron became more aware of the importance of clean water as a drinking source and for recreation. This awareness encouraged him in deciding to further his education to pursue a career involving the protection of natural resources, specifically water.
In 2023, he earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Biology at York College of Pennsylvania. During his education, Aaron had the opportunity to be our Water Watchdog Coordinator where he monitored Escherichia coli, E.coli (a harmful bacteria known to be found in the fecal matter of humans and animals) near recreation areas along the lower Susquehanna River.
In Aaron’s free time he enjoys being outside running, paddling, fly fishing, biking, climbing, and backpacking. He also loves playing the guitar, connecting with family and friends, and traveling.
He is committed to continuing and growing our volunteer programs which include clean-ups, the Greener Codorus Initiative, Water Watchdogs, Microplastics Monitoring, and Stream Team with aspirations to contribute to the much-needed work in protecting clean water within the lower Susquehanna River watershed.
Stephanie Lower
Administrative Coordinator
After retiring from Fulton Financial Corporation and a 40-year banking career as an Information Technology manager specializing in loan origination systems development and implementation, Stephanie is grateful for the opportunity to combine her technical skills and her passion for clean water sustainability.
Outdoor enthusiasm began early in her childhood where she spent summers camping as a Girl Scout, playing in the Conestoga River near her home and Pine Creek near her extended family’s mountain getaway. As a fourth-generation native Susquehannock Indian, she has always had a strong connection to the water and land of and around the Susquehanna River.
In 2019, Stephanie became a York County Certified Master Watershed Steward with the Penn State Extension and since then has logged 1000+ volunteer hours and 250+ education hours as a watershed leader in the community. She has established strong connections to a wide variety of non-profit environmental organizations and is a Lancaster Watershed Leadership Academy graduate, member of the Board of Directors for the Conestoga River Club, volunteer education steward with Lancaster Conservancy, Faithful Green Leader and congregational mentor for Interfaith Partners for the Chesapeake, founder of her Church’s Creation Care Team and watershed champion and Creation Care Ambassador the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America’s Lower Susquehanna synod.
When Stephanie isn’t working or volunteering, she can be found outdoors somewhere by the water kayaking, hiking, geocaching and nature journaling. She also enjoys gardening and relaxing in her backyard: a certified Wildlife Habitat, where she enjoys observing metamorphosis in her frogs and monarch butterflies.
She lives across the river in Mountville with her husband, grown son and Labradoodle, Winnie.
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