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.

Cammie Hill-Prewitt is an Alabama native who originally moved to New Orleans to pursue a Master’s degree in Art History at Tulane. Passionate about the arts, she has worked in non- profits for more than twenty 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. Part of Cammie's job is to help source the materials, sites and individuals that artists need to create risk-taking new works during their residencies.

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.

A widely consulted and quoted authority on water law and management, Mark Davis joined Tulane Law School in 2007 as a senior research fellow and founding director of the Tulane Institute on Water Resources Law and Policy. In 2017 he also became the director of Tulane’s ByWater Institute which is focused the interdisciplinary aspects of water stewardship and community resilience.