1. Welcome! Empowering Community Resilience Sustainable Communities Leadership Academy Houston, TX September 11 – 12, 2014

2. Our goal, simply put… …to help you do your jobs even better by providing efficient and affordable access to high-caliber information, expertise and each other

3. Source: Tucson Citizen, August 3, 2007

4. Source: Chicago Tribune

6. Who’s here?

8. What we heard from you… Building Capacity for Authentic Engagement Supporting Coalitions of Diverse Stakeholders Communicating Climate Science, Risk, and Resilience