Our Team

Rachel Brittin is a strategic communications and external affairs leader with 25+ years of experience turning climate, environmental, and public policy goals into public momentum. She has held senior roles at NOAA, The Pew Charitable Trusts, Defenders of Wildlife, and American University, where she led strategies for communications, stakeholder engagement, and media outreach.

Toby Hedger is a climate policy professional with over two decades of experience spanning international negotiations, national climate action, and transparency, with a proven ability to build consensus among diverse stakeholders. Before joining The Resilience Collaborative, she served as Senior Transparency and Mitigation Officer at the U.S. Department of State, where she was the leading U.S. expert on climate reporting and transparency.

Dave McGlinchey is an environmental policy professional with a background spanning law, communications, and climate science. Before joining The Resilience Collaborative, he spent nearly a decade at the Woodwell Climate Research Center (formerly the Woods Hole Research Center), where he led the organization’s government relations and policy efforts. At Woodwell, McGlinchey’s work focused heavily on climate risk, climate security, adaptation, and natural climate solutions. He designed and managed initiatives that delivered climate risk assessments to national, regional, and local governments.

Siri Renier worked as an intelligence analyst in the U.S. Government for 25 years, focusing on complex, enduring national security problems. From 2021-2025, she served at the National Intelligence Council in the Strategic Futures Group, where she led strategic intelligence analysis on the national security implications of ongoing and projected changes in the environment, including climate change.