Andrew Waters completed his Ph.D. in natural resources policy from Clemson University in 2022 after a twenty-year career in land conservation and land trust leadership. Today, Waters works full-time as the farmland preservation coordinator for Chatham County, a rapidly urbanizing area in North Carolina's dynamic "Triangle" region, and serves as lecturer in the Master of Public Administration program at Clemson University, where he has taught a self-designed course on sustainable land use and adaptive government.