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.