To date, Marccus has primarily worked to understand how social processes and development patterns create hazardous human-built environments, vulnerable infrastructure, and the related risks in urban stormwater management and flooding. Other work has focused on technological disasters, namely fertilizer explosions, and structural damage assessments and recovery trajectories, as well as cascading events such as wet-weather […]
Sri Vedachalam
I grew up in urban India, where uninterrupted water access was (and still is) a challenge. While that is not the case broadly in the U.S., we still have a long way to go toward universal access to water and sanitation. The water challenges of the 20th century were solved with chemicals, science, and engineering. […]
Andrian Lee
I practice environmental and land use law. I care deeply about ensuring equitable access to basic services and quality infrastructure. Before joining BCM Environmental & Land Law, I served as a fellow at the Center for Water Policy in Milwaukee, WI where I researched and wrote about lead service line replacement programs, federal funding for […]
Ciara Horne
Ciara specializes in data visualization and social equity. She uses her background in civil engineering and passion for environmental justice to uncover water infrastructure injustices, particularly those arising from dam failures. Ciara utilizes data to bring light to social disparities as well as to inform equitable and sustainable policy solutions that will combat them.
Sonali Abraham
Sonali conducts technical research and analysis on water use trends, efficiency, and stewardship in various sectors and regions, with a focus on urban, commercial, and industrial settings. She has over seven years of experience working with state and national environmental policy makers, businesses, and civil society organizations to develop and implement solutions for water resilience. […]
Roland Jones
Roland is an expert on Community-Based Public-Private partnerships as a solution for resilient infrastructure. An example of his work is the Clean Water Partnership in Prince George’s County that was established in 2015 to retrofit over 4,000 acres of surfaces using green stormwater infrastructure. Roland’s partnership building skills are critical to rolling out community supported […]
Nusrat Molla
Nusrat studies how communities that rely on extractive industries, such as those in the coal mining regions of Appalachia, participate in and adapt to the clean energy transition. Her goal is to identify which are the key characteristics of a community that drive its overall resilience to change and how they’re interconnected, including individual behaviors, […]
André Sanchez
Currently a community organizer for an environmental non-profit that works on wilderness and wild & scenic river issues. Similarly, I am a community leader that organizes events and resources for the Latinx community to engage in the outdoors in various ways, including recreating on rivers. I hold academic and work experience in aquatic wildlife work […]
Chauncey Foster
Chauncey is an environmental justice leader, activist and educator. In his role as Director of we.grow.eco, he and his team facilitate events designed to alter the habits in action and thought that perpetuate an unhealthy, unbalanced, unsustainable relationship with our environment. From teaching workshops transforming textile waste to paper and journal making to monthly Abstract […]
Analise Rivero
Analise is passionate about the natural world and its protection for all the generations to come. She aims to help policymakers do the right thing through her work on water legislative advocacy. She works on the development and implementation of California Trout’s natural resource and water policy agenda in the California State Legislature through regulatory […]