Abby Sullivan is the Acting Chief Resilience Officer in the Philadelphia Office of Sustainability. In this role she supports municipal climate adaptation by translating climate science into actionable tools and information and leads Philadelphia’s citywide resilience planning. Previously, she served as an Environmental Scientist at the Philadelphia Water Department (PWD) with the Climate Change Adaptation Program where she led the Department’s coastal flood resilience efforts. Prior to working on the climate adaptation, she worked on public engagement and planning for PWD’s green stormwater infrastructure program, Green City Clean Waters. She is on the steering committee and helped launch PEERS (Practitioner Exchange for Effective Response to Sea level rise), a global community of practice for sea level rise adaptation professionals. Abby is a Certified Floodplain Manager and serves on NASA’s Sea Level Change Practitioner Consultation Board. She has a Master of Resource Management degree with a focus on coastal systems from the University Centre of the Westfjords, University of Akureyri in Iceland.

Dr. Franco Montalto is a licensed civil and environmental engineer with 30 years of research, planning, and design experience in the fields of ecological restoration, green infrastructure, and urban sustainability and resilience. He is a Professor at Drexel University, where he directs the Sustainable Water Resource Engineering Lab, and is also the Founder and President of eDesign Dynamics LLC, an environmental consulting firm based in New York City, with an international portfolio of projects.  He is a Member of the 4^th New York City Panel on Climate Change (NPCC4), where he co-chairs the Flooding Working Group, and also served as an invited author of the recently released Northeast Chapter of the 5^th National Climate Assessment (NCA5).