Maya E. Carrasquillo is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and is the Principal Investigator of the Justice, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Liberation Lab [JEDI (L)ab] at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research has primarily studied the intersections of stormwater management, environmental justice, and complex hydrosocial systems, particularly focusing in historically underserved, albeit historically resilient communities to develop a conceptual framework for equitable decision-making. Her work employs qualitative methods emphasizing community engagement, ethnography, and co-creation of design solutions for critical infrastructure. Dr. Carrasquillo serves on the Climate Science and Projections Working Group of the New York City Panel on Climate Change (NPCC) and has served on the EPA National Environmental Justice Advisory Council (NEJAC) Youth Climate Change Work Group. She is currently a Huelskamp Faculty Fellow in the College of Engineering at UC Berkeley. She is also a certified Envision Sustainability Professional (ENV SP). She holds a B.S. in Environmental Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from the University of South Florida.

Marccus D. Hendricks is an Assistant Professor of Urban Studies and Planning and the Director of the Stormwater Infrastructure Resilience and Justice (SIRJ) Lab at the University of Maryland. To date, he has primarily worked to understand how social processes and development patterns create hazardous human-built environments and vulnerable infrastructure and the related risks in urban stormwater management and flooding. Other work has also focused on technological risks such as fertilizer explosions, as well as cascading events such as wet-weather events that overwhelm sanitary sewers and cause contamination, household back-ups and overflows. His work emphasizes participation and action that uses methods including photography, visual inspection and environmental sampling. Hendricks has received two early-career awards from both the National Academies of Science Gulf Research Program and The JPB Environmental Health Fellows Program at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. Most recently, he was named as a 2021 “Fixer” by the media company Grist for their annual Grist 50 Fixer list and appointed to the Springer Nature’s US Research Advisory Council and the EPA’s Science Advisory Board. He holds a Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Science and a Master of Public Health, both from Texas A&M University.