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climate change

Lesley Dupigny-Giroux is a professor of geography and geoscience at the University of Vermont. As a climatologist, she focuses on hydroclimatic natural hazards — climate hazards associated with the distribution of water, like floods or droughts — as well as other severe weather hazards. She can offer insight into climate literacy and climate change.

Craig Santos Perez is an Indigenous Chamoru (Chamorro) from Guam who is an associate professor of the University of Hawai’i, Mānoa’s English department. He teaches eco-poetry — poetry that addresses environmental disaster — and creative writing and Pacific literature.

Idowu “Jola” Ajibade is an assistant professor of geography at Portland State University. She uses an environmental justice and political ecology lens to study the intersection of climate adaptation, urban sustainability and societal transformation.

Philip Higuera is a professor in the Department of Ecosystem and Conservation Sciences at the University of Montana, where he leads the PaleoEcology and Fire Ecology Lab.

Ernesto Alvarado is a research associate professor of wildland fire sciences in the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences at the University of Washington.

Kiho Kim is a professor of environmental science at American University.

Regina Shih is the director of the Social and Behavioral Policy Program and a senior policy researcher at the RAND Corporation.

Maxine Burkett is a professor of law at the University of Hawai’i, Manoa, and a global fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

Mustafa Santiago Ali is vice president of environmental justice, climate and community revitalization at the National Wildlife Federation.

Nicole Hernandez Hammer is the environmental scientist at UPROSE.

Erika Zavaleta is a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz.