Juita-Elena (Wie) Yusufis Professor of Public Service at Old Dominion University. Her areas of expertise are in public finance, infrastructure planning, coastal community resilience, climate change and sea-level rise, public participation, and stakeholder engagement. She develops resilience products for use by general, non-technical audiences including planners, businesses, and residents. Tanya Denckla Cobbis Director of the Institute for Engagement & Negotiation at the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, University of Virginia. She is a seasoned environmental and public policy mediator, working with people across all sectors to address challenging, complex issues through equitable collaboration and seeking sustainable solutions. Sierra Gladfelteris Senior Associate at the University of Virginia's Institute for Engagement & Negotiation, where she leads community engaged climate resilience, facilitation, and collaborative planning projects. Sierra has over a decade of climate adaptation experience and has been the project manager of The RAFT for the last seven years. Elizabeth Andrewsis Distinguished Law & Policy Fellow at the Institute for Engagement & Negotiation, University of Virginia.

Her expertise in climate resiliency law and policy derives from many years of teaching and practice with the Virginia Coastal Policy Center at William & Mary Law School and the Virginia Attorney General's office.