Michele Adams is a Water Resources Engineer and founder of Meliora Design. Her work encompasses environmentally sensitive site design and sustainable water resources engineering. Michele seeks to combine sound engineering science with an understanding of natural systems and stormwater techniques that maintain or restore a site’s natural hydrology. She has extensive design experience in green infrastructure, landscape restoration, and designing for resiliency. Michele was one of the authors of the Pennsylvania Stormwater Manual and currently serves on the U.S. Green Building Council’s Water Efficiency Technical Advisory Group, and ILFI's Water Technical Advisory Group. She is a co-author of Design for Flooding: Architecture, Landscape, and Urban Design for Resilience to Climate Change (Wiley, 2011) and the NYC Parks High Performance Landscape Guidelines.

José Almiñana, FASLA, is a principal at Andropogon Associates, a landscape architecture firm known for its regenerative development approach. Trained as both a landscape architect and architect, José has practiced and advocated tirelessly for design that harmonizes people and place through a holistic understanding of our environment and the aspirations of the community. His projects demonstrate and promote innovative and regenerative site development strategies that heal our landscapes and contribute solutions to our present environmental challenges. José has been instrumental on the development of multiple high-performance LEED, SITES, and Living Building Certified projects José was the recipient of the ASLA President’s Medal in 2010 and was elected to the ASLA Council of Fellows the same year. In recognition for his contributions to the cultural life of Philadelphia through work that reflects a drive for progress and modernity with a sensitivity to the past, José received the Wyck-Strickland Award in 2023.

Robert Goo works at the USEPA in the Office of Water in the Office of Wetlands, Oceans and Watersheds. His current areas of concentration include water sensitive urban design, watershed management, voluntary codes and standards such as the LEED/Sustainable Sites and the International Green Construction Code. He helped write the National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Phase II regulations and is part of the Green Infrastructure Team at EPA. He serves as a judge for the EPA Campus Rainworks program and helped develop the Greening America’s Capitols program. Robert also worked on the development of Low Impact Development guidance and policies for the Department of Defense and the General Services Administration. Robert is currently working to promote nature-based solutions to protect and restore water resources to increase community resiliency especially for disadvantaged communities and communities contending with increased hazards such as flooding, drought, wildfires due to climate change.