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Brendan C. Byrne’s fiction has appeared in Terraform, Dark Mountain, Imperica, Flapperhouse, and FLURB, his criticism in Motherboard, The Intercept, Arc, New Scientist, The Baffler, and Rhizome. Along with Ingrid Burrington, he received a 2019 Mozilla Creative Media Award for their epistolary newsletter novella The Training Commission.

Ingrid Burrington writes, makes maps, and tells jokes about places, politics, and the weird feelings people have about both. She’s the co-author of The Training Commission with Brendan C. Byrne, and the author of Networks of New York: An Illustrated Field Guide to Internet Infrastructure.

Dr. Anthony Townsend works at the intersection of urbanization and digital technology. He is the author of two books: Ghost Road: Beyond the Driverless Car (2020) and Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers and the Quest for A New Utopia (2013)—both published by W.W. Norton & Co. Anthony is the founder of Star City Group,…

Dr. Peter Engelke is a Deputy Director and Senior Fellow within the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center on Strategy and Security. His diverse work portfolio at the Center’s Foresight, Strategy, and Risks Initiative spans global and regional futures, geopolitics and international affairs, innovation and technological disruption, climate change and natural resources, and global urbanization among other…

David is CHBA’s lead on climate resiliency, engaged with both Canadian Standards Association (CSA) and the National Research Council of Canada (NRCC) in the development of resiliency guidelines and standards related to flooding, wind damage and wildfire risk. David is also a member of CSA’s Construction and Civil Infrastructure Strategic Steering Committee, and serves on…

Jesse M. Keenan* is a social scientist and a member of the faculty of the Graduate School of Design, with a joint appointment at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, in Science, Technology and Public Policy at Harvard University. Keenan’s principle research focus is on climate change adaptation and the built environment, including aspects…

Thaddeus Pawlowski is a leader in climate-resilient urban design and planning. Through research and practice, he is responding to the climate emergency by creating new methods for designing and planning the built environment. Using place-based, design-driven workshops, he facilitates collaboration across disciplines at Columbia University (law, policy, earth science, engineering, public health, business)and with governments,…

Dr. Missy Stults is the Sustainability and Innovations Manager for the City of Ann Arbor. In this role, she works with all city operations, residents, businesses, the University of Michigan, nonprofits, and others to make Ann Arbor one of the most sustainable and equitable cities in America. Prior to joining the City, Missy worked with…

Anna Ziolecki is Adjunct Professor and Director of Partners for Action at the University of Waterloo, an applied research network of collaborators, from academia, government, the private sector and non-government organizations, who are committed to advancing flood resiliency in a changing climate. Anna has conducted interdisciplinary research on many contemporary policy issues, including on property…

Jason Thistlethwaite is an Associate Professor in the School of Environment, Enterprise and Development (SEED) at the University of Waterloo, a Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) and Associate Director for Partners for Action (P4A). His research evaluates climate change risk management strategies designed to reduce economic vulnerability. His current research…

George P.R. Benson is a resilience thinker and practitioner working on climate displacement, urban planning, and economic resilience. He has worked in Canada and around the world He is a Co-founder of the Climate Displacement Planning Initiative, and sits in various advisory capacity to governments and businesses working on climate action and sustainability. In particular,…

Anna is a community planning and development consultant in Vancouver working to facilitate collaborative processes of planning, policy and design in communities across the province. After completing her Masters of Community and Regional Planning at the University of British Columbia, Anna co-founded the Climate Migrants and Refugees Project with a mission to develop resources for…