Julia Kumari Drapkin is the CEO of ISeeChange, a climate data & engagement platform that applies AI to resident-generated data, enabling cities to design, monitor, and maintain climate-ready infrastructure that reduces the financial and human cost of climate change. Cities have used ISeeChange to generate over 25M in infrastructure investments in low-income communities. Drapkin founded ISeeChange after reporting natural disasters and climate change for 12 years across the globe and in her own backyard on the Gulf Coast.  Under her leadership, ISeeChange has received national awards and recognition from the White House Climate Data Initiative, NASA, MIT Solve, Echoing Green, Village Capital, Grist, AGU, the AAAS, Verizon, Exelon, Morgan Stanley, and the National Science Foundation. Drapkin also serves on the American Meteorological Society’s' Board on Environment and Health.