Simone Domingue is an environmental sociologist and critical scholar of climate adaptation and disaster resilience. She works with communities and partners to disrupt harmful cycles of exclusion and disempowerment contributing to environmental and disaster recovery inequalities. She is currently working with collaborators on several projects to identify key drivers of disaster vulnerability, local government capacity, and environmental-related migration along the Gulf Coast.

Gabbi, the Studio's Outreach & Marketing Coordinator, is a born and bred New Orleanian leveraging 10+ years of corporate marketing, advertising, event and media planning experience across verticals including non-profits, hospitality, higher education, healthcare and the arts. A Presidential Honors and Milly & George Denegre Award in Dance recipient from NOCCA, Gabbi studied dance for over 25 years training with artists from Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, Dance Theatre of Harlem, Complexions Contemporary Dance Company and Washington Ballet.

Reepal Shah holds a Ph.D. from IIT Gandhinagar in India and specializes in large-scale modeling of physical processes, hydrology, and ecohydrology.

Li Huang has an impressive background with a B.S. in Environmental Engineering from China University of Geosciences, an M.S. in Ecological Geology from Moscow State University, and a Ph.D. in Hydrogeology from the University of Alabama.

Hanna is a Tulane alumna graduating with a degree in International Relations. Following graduation, Hanna began working with the Bywater Institute helping facilitate academic and advocacy conferences at the Tulane River and Coastal Center. Hanna has an interest in water-related issues and topics in line with the ByWater Institute’s focus on coastal issues. Being from the Mississippi Gulf Coast herself, Hanna is proud to work with the Bywater Institute and seeks to fosters a hospitable environment to host discussions on water-related topics.

Yushio Tsai is an accomplished researcher with a Ph.D. in Civil & Environmental Engineering from Tufts University, specializing in hydrology.

John Sabo is a Professor in the Department of Coastal & River Science and Engineering in the School of Science and Engineering at Tulane University.  In the academic realm he directs Tulane’s ByWater Institute, a research institute dedicated to creating transdisciplinary and transformative research that advances resilience of water resources in New Orleans, the Mississippi River Basin and in tropical rive