Christina Richardson, Ph.D., is a coastal hydrologist and biogeochemist who studies the impacts of climate change and other disturbances, like wildfire, on aquatic ecosystems. She has worked on a wide range of projects across the terrestrial-marine nexus, from tracking wastewater pollution in groundwater entering coral reefs to carbon cycling in drained and restored peatlands. At Project Drawdown, her work focuses on climate solutions at the coast and in the ocean. Christina received her Ph.D. from the University of California at Santa Cruz in Earth and Planetary Sciences and M.S. in Geology and Geophysics from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, where she was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. She is also a National Geographic Explorer. Christina holds a B.S. in Marine Biology from the University of California at Santa Cruz as well.

Heather Jones, Ph.D., is an economist who specializes in the intersection of infrastructure, transportation, and climate change. She has expertise in including externalities in assessments through CBA, LCA, and creating specialized models. Her work for Project Drawdown centers on climate solutions in the transportation sector. Heather earned her Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Portugal Program-University of Lisbon in Transportation Systems and an MBA in finance from the Jenkins School of Management at NCSU. She has lectured at MIT, SciencesPo and University of Lisbon-Técnico. She has worked on transportation, Infratech, climate financing mechanisms, and the circular economy at Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, UN ESCAP, World Bank, and GCSE and served as an associate editor for the Encyclopedia of UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Nina-Francesca Farac, Ph.D., is an applied chemist with expertise in materials development, carbon-based electronics, and circular economy strategies. Her research interests include life cycle assessments, global resource management, and systems-level decarbonization. At Project Drawdown, she focuses on assessing climate solutions in the industry sector. Previously, Nina was an intern scientist at the startup Amber Molecular Inc. She has also worked on interdisciplinary projects investigating waste mitigation of rare earth elements from spent EV batteries and catalysis for commodity chemicals manufacturing, served as the communications coordinator for the Green Chemistry Initiative (GCI) at the University of Toronto (UofT), and was a fellow at the ACS Summer School on Green Chemistry & Sustainable Energy at the Colorado School of Mines. Nina earned her doctorate in Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry and her H.BSc in Materials Chemistry at UofT. 

Heather McDiarmid, Ph.D., is a climate change mitigation consultant and educator who specializes in decarbonization solutions for the residential sector. She has a strong passion for heat pumps that, while not perfect, are incredibly energy efficient, very effective at reducing building emissions in most regions, and also improve comfort and double as air-conditioners (how can you not get excited about that!). At Project Drawdown, her work focuses on climate solutions related to buildings, electricity, industry, and transportation.