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 river bas

Ehab Meselhe, Ph.D., P.E., has more than 25 years of experience researching coastal wetland hydrology, sediment transport, and computer modeling of coastal wetland, estuarine, and riverine systems. He worked as an educator, researcher, and practitioner with extensive experience working with academic institutions, government agencies, and the private sector.

David Baker grew up in uptown New Orleans and went to Lusher elementary and McMain magnet High School.  Baker studied botany under Dr. Bill Platt at LSU and went on to study the impacts of Hurricane Andrew on Everglades National Park and LSU’s Ben Hur Woods, a bottomland hardwood forest.  While working in the park Baker learned the trade of Wild land/Prescribed firefighting.  Following his time at LSU he worked at the Louisiana Nature Conservancy as the Louisiana State Land Steward, managing and burning 16 nature preserves in Louisiana.

Before moving to New Orleans to pursue a Masters degree in Art History at Tulane, Residency Coordinator Cammie Hill-Prewitt was the Program Manager of a non-profit organization in San Francisco working with emerging visual artists. Passionate about the arts, she has worked in non-profits for more than fifteen years. She started working at A Studio in the Woods in 2007 and enjoys finding new ways to bring the arts to the Greater New Orleans community and to students of all ages.

Ama Rogan is the Managing Director of A Studio in the Woods at Tulane University, an artist-in-residency facility centered on creative and innovative responses to environmental and social themes. Rogan earned a BFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1988 and had a professional art practice until 2000 working in a variety of media including printmaking, ceramics and mixed media. In 2001 she joined the fledgling Board of Friends of A Studio in the Woods and founded the Program committee that oversaw the development of the Studio signature residency program.

Joshua Lewis is a research associate professor and research director at the Tulane ByWater Institute. He has previously held appointments at the Stockholm Resilience Centre and the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology. Josh’s research focuses on the role of water infrastructure in shaping ecological conditions in urban and other human-dominated environments. His research and community engagement seeks ecologically appropriate and socially equitable responses to water and ecosystem management dilemmas.

Amy E. Lesen is an associate professor in the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research Center at Dillard University and Research Associate Professor at the Tulane ByWater Institute at Tulane University in New Orleans. Lesen works on the coast and in urban estuaries. The overarching theme of her work is the interrelatedness between environmental and human social dynamics in coastal cities and coastal communities, and how those systems are influenced by climate and environmental change. Most of her current work focuses in New Orleans, Southeastern Louisiana, and the Gulf Coast.