Dr. Janice Barnes

Quantified Ventures Advisory Committee Member

Founder, Climate Adaptation Partners

Dr. Janice Barnes, founder of Climate Adaptation Partners, focuses on planning, advocacy, and partnership-building for climate adaptation. With technical training in architecture and organizational behavior, she helps clients to evaluate possible adaptation pathways given current and expected exposures and link these to appropriate design and financing or funding options. Working from the intersection of climate change and public health, Janice links environmental, social, and economic indicators to advance resilience principles and connect knowledge across communities.

She recently co-chaired the National Academies’ Managed Retreat Consensus Study, NYSERDA’s Climate Impact Assessment Health and Safety Technical Working Group, the New York City Panel on Climate Change Health Working Group, and advised the Urban Land Institute, US ISO TC59 on Buildings and Civil Engineering Works, and the Florida Institute for Built Environment Resilience. Janice previously led global resilience for Perkins+Will, working with 24 offices across multiple countries to advance resilience in concert with in-country initiatives. Recent collaborators include the cities of New York, Houston, Charleston, Hampton, Amsterdam, Tel Aviv, and the District of Columbia. as well as The Nature Conservancy, Southern Environmental Law Center, Audubon, NOAA, South Carolina Sea Grant, NASA, Zurich Foundation, and Greater New Orleans Foundation.

Janice has a Ph.D. and a Master of Science from the University of Michigan, a Master of Architecture from Tulane University, and a B.A. from the University of Tennessee. She values teams’ collective contributions to broaden transdisciplinary practices. Her message settles on a shared truth about the responsibilities to act on climate change as its implications are increasingly understood: #WeCantUnknowThis.