Erin Derrington (she / they) is the Local2030 Islands Network Global Energy and Water Communities of Practice Coordinator. With a professional background in sustainable development planning and implementation, and an academic background in environmental science and law, Erin is excited to be leading efforts to build strong and substantive engagement within and across the Clean Energy and Resilience and the Water-Energy-Food Nexus Communities of Practice (CoP). As the lead focal point for these CoPs, Ms. Derrington looks forward to supporting strategic planning and thematic content development, engaging technical partners, and leading CoP participant outreach to build robust and collaborative peer-to-peer communities anchored in knowledge exchange and technical capacity building to achieve island-driven solutions to complex sustainable development challenges.