Eloise, born and raised in the CNMI, is a passionate environmental advocate with degrees in Natural Resources Management and Rehabilitation and Human Services. She represents CNMI as an Early Career Ocean Professional and works as Social Media Consultant for the Sargassum Podcast and Ocean Team Leader for Solving for X and Friends of the Marianas Trench.

Vuyisile is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at ACDI, University of Cape Town. He is working on the Heat Adaptation Benefits for Vulnerable Groups in Africa (HABVIA) project to address some of the large evidence gaps on the human health and wider social outcomes of heat adaptation in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).

Meg Mills-Novoa is an assistant professor with a joint appointment to the Department of Environmental Science, Policy & Management and the Energy and Resources Group. Meg is the director of the Climate Futures Lab, a hub for social science research on the impact and equity of climate change responses Margot Jeanne Cohen is a PhD student in the division of Society & Environment at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research is rooted in critical participatory methodologies, feminist political ecology, and decolonial geographies in Ecuador and the United States to examine the coalitional politics of climate changed futures. Edwige Marty is a postdoc who conducts research on the cross-scale power relations that shape socially differentiated lived experiences of adaptation processes. Her research combines insights from the critical adaptation scholarship, feminist political ecologies and critical agrarian studies to analyze changing pastoral livelihoods in Kenya and France. Siri Eriksen is a professor at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences who does work on the politics of adaptation in different geographic contexts. Her recent work has focused on climate resilient development, including the role of compassionate climate change research in advancing socially just climate action. Vanessa Lueck is a Researcher-in-Residence on the Living with Water project at the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions. Her research and work include justice and equity, sustainable coastal adaptation, adaptation governance and innovative solutions. In the Living with Water project, she focuses on the role of Indigenous knowledge and values, nature-based solutions, and innovative governance solutions to drive local sustainable coastal climate adaptation processes. Hallie Eakin is a Professor in the School of Sustainability at Arizona State University. Her current research focuses on the roles, responsibilities and relationships among actors involved in adaptation governance in both rural and urban areas. She has collaborated extensively with colleagues in Mexico, Central America, South Africa, and Canada in her exploration of the political economy of adaptation and the determinants of more transformative adaptive capacity. Petra Tschakert is Professor of Geography at the National University of Singapore. Her research is on climate change adaptation, climate justice, loss and damage, and intersecting inequalities. She has extensive expertise in participatory methodologies to examine power differentials and validate lived experiences and was twice IPCC Coordinating Lead Author. Maria da Graca Benedito Jonas is a PhD student at Eduardo Mondlane University, Mozambique. Her research focuses on the lived experiences and indigenous knowledge driving climate change adaptation in Chokwe district, southern Mozambique. She participates in the Co-creating knowledge for local adaptation to climate change in least developed countries (COLOCAL) research project.

Spanning a career of 25 years in the public service, predominately in marine and coastal management, Polly Matthews is a lead project manager for strategic, statewide projects within the Regional Coastal Adaptation and Planning team, Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action, Victoria, Australia.

Muhammad Abdur Rahaman serves the Center for People & Environ (CPE) as Director. Mr. Rahaman is a dedicated young climate scientist who has worked in the climate science and policy field for over 23 years.