Simone Fine is the Grants and Finance Specialist for the Climate Adaptation and Resilience team. In this role, she supports the by overall health of the adaptation portfolio by managing budgets, contracts, reports, and compliance for a collection of public and private grants and partnerships. She is honored to support climate initiatives which are contributing to the most critical work of our time.

Prior to working at WRI, she was a Portfolio Manager at AmeriCorps, the federal agency dedicated to national service and volunteerism. Simone also spent the better part of a decade teaching in traditional and non-traditional educational institutions including Knowledge Commons DC, Citizens Schools, and Durham Public Schools.

Simone holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Pitzer College and a master's degree in teaching from Duke University. She is based in Durham, North Carolina.