Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. recently announced the following appointments:

Karen Naungayan, 46, of Fair Oaks, has been appointed assistant director of external affairs at the California Department of Housing and Community Development. Naungayan has been communications director at Housing California since 2006. She was marketing programs and events manager at Inventures Alliance Management from 2002 to 2006 and managing editor at Fatbrain.com Inc. from 2000 to 2002. Naungayan was senior project editor at Ten Speed Press from 1999 to 2000 and a project editor at Prima Publishing from 1997 to 1999. This position does not require Senate confirmation and the compensation is $92,004. Naungayan is a Democrat.

Lester Snow, 64, of Fair Oaks, has been appointed to the Klamath River Renewal Corporation Board of Directors. Snow has been executive director at the Resources Legacy Fund’s Water Foundation since 2011. He served as secretary at the California Natural Resources Agency from 2010 to 2011 and as director at the California Department of Water Resources from 2004 to 2010. Snow is a member of the Water Education Foundation Board of Directors and the Public Policy Institute of California Advisory Committee. Snow earned a Master of Science degree in water resources administration from the University of Arizona. This position does not require Senate confirmation and there is no compensation. Snow is a Democrat.