Joyce Coffee is a Senior Advisor to the American Flood Coalition, where she helps to inform the strategy of the Coalition by leveraging her experience as founder and President of Climate Resilience Consulting, a certified WBE which works with clients to create practical strategies that enhance markets and communities through adaptation to climate change. In her professional experience, Coffee has created resilience strategies for various cities and companies, trained hundreds of local officials in resilience finance, and led the development of the world’s first set of climate resilience principles for the financial services industry. Additionally, she has directed the National Equitable Climate Resilience project and co-authored the national report on the state of the climate adaptation field.

Coffee has 25 years of experience in each major sector including leadership roles in city government, and the private, nonprofit, philanthropic, and academic sectors. She has worked with over 200 institutions to create and implement climate-related resilience and recovery strategies, build partnerships, and direct collaborative implementation of complex initiatives. She is the primary author of over two dozen resilience-related reports, as well as being the author of the Climate Adaptation Exchange Blog.

Coffee graduated from Tufts University and went on to obtain a Masters in city planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.