Authorities have identified a woman who died after a kayaking accident in Tomales Bay last month as Brigitte Manspeaker, according to the Sonoma County coroner’s office and a fundraising campaign created in her memory.

Manspeaker died March 21 after a kayak overturned in rough conditions on the bay. Rescuers responded after receiving reports of two people in the water. A Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office helicopter arrived about 12 minutes after being requested by the Marin County Fire Department.

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Ruth Dusseault is an investigative reporter and multimedia journalist focused on environment and energy. Her position is supported by the California local news fellowship, a statewide initiative spearheaded by UC Berkeley aimed at supporting local news platforms. While a student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism (c’23), Ruth developed stories about the social and environmental circumstances of contaminated watersheds around the Great Lakes, Mississippi River and Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. Her thesis explored rights of nature laws in small rural communities. She is a former assistant professor and artist in residence at Georgia Tech’s School of Architecture, and uses photography, film and digital storytelling to report on the engineered systems that undergird modern life.