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Anita Milman is Professor of Water Governance in the Department of Environmental Conservation (ECo) at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Milman’s research examines on the multi-level governance of water resources, with a focus on human responses to hydro-climatic and other sources of environmental change. She earned a Ph.D. from the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California, Berkeley and an M.Eng from the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Cornell University. Prior to joining ECo, Milman was a Senior Research Associate with the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research and the School of International Development at the University of East Anglia, in Norwich, Norfolk, United Kingdom. Milman serves on the editorial board of the journal Environmental Research Letters and is a member of the NAS Study Board for the NYC Watershed.

Andrea K. Gerlak is a professor in the School of Geography and Development and Director of the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy at the University of Arizona. Her research focuses on institutions for governing water resources. She examines cooperation and conflict around water, including questions of institutional change and adaptation to climate change in rivers basins, and human rights and equity issues in water governance. Gerlak is a senior research fellow with the Earth System Governance Project, and serves as a co-editor for the Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning and an Associate Editor for Climatic Change.

Kelsey Wentling is a Master’s student in the Department of Environmental Conservation at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her research focuses on the interface of science and policy in transboundary water governance. Before beginning her Master’s work, Wentling completed an AmeriCorps service year in Vermont and worked in outdoor education in the mountains of Southern California. Wentling graduated from the University of Delaware with a degree in Environmental Studies, with a focus on policy, and a minor in Journalism.