Angie Nakano
Angie began her career in Vector control as a seasonal laboratory assistant with the District back 2005. From 2006-2012 she was a vector ecologist in the SMCMVCD laboratory. She was the vector ecologist for Santa Clara County, performing all in-house PCR testing for Lyme disease in ticks and WNV in birds and mosquitoes for three years, then moved up to supervise all aspects of the Marin/Sonoma MVCD laboratory as the Scientific Programs Manager in 2015. In 2017, she left that position to come back to the District.
Outside work, Angie has volunteered with sick and injured wildlife at the Marine Mammal Center in the Marin Headlands since 1996 and helps conduct insect surveys for the Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve at Stanford University.