Amanda Leinberger joined the Center for Climate Adaptation Science and Solutions (CCASS) as the Adaptation Program Manager in January 2018. Prior to coming to the University of Arizona, Amanda spent two years in San Juan, Puerto Rico as a NOAA Coastal Management Fellow working with the Puerto Rico Coastal Zone Management Program on projects related to climate change and coastal resilience. She is an author of the US Caribbean Chapter of the Fourth National Climate Assessment and of Puerto Rico’s State of the Climate Report 2014-2017. Amanda received her MA in international environmental policy with a concentration in ocean and coastal resource management from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey and her BA in environmental studies from Franklin University Switzerland.