Katherine (Kathy) Bunting-Howarth is Associate Director of New York Sea Grant and Assistant Director of Cornell Cooperative Extension. Her expertise is in coastal management and policy, community engagement, and using social science to inform extension programming. She enjoys working with diverse groups of people to address wicked problems. Most recently, she has led workshops on human migration under changing climatic conditions, as well as research gaps related to nature-based solutions, and completed a pilot study on the social impacts of nuisance flooding in New York City neighborhoods. The former Director of Water Resources for the state of Delaware, Kathy served in leadership roles for two National Estuary Programs as well as the Chesapeake Bay Program and the Delaware River Basin Program. Bunting-Howarth holds a Ph.D. in Marine Studies (concentration in Marine Policy) and a JD with a certificate in Environment and Natural Resource Law.