Adapting to and mitigating the impacts of climate change is often articulated as the technological and policy challenge of our time. Undergraduate and graduate students around the world are desperate to apply their STEM skills and more to providing solutions to these challenges. However, the traditional Environmental Engineering and Science curriculum is not necessarily structured to meet the environmental engineering needs of the past (e.g. environmental quality) with those of the future (e.g., WASH, decarbonization technologies, geochemical impact assessment, climate justice, sustainable resources and energy). This panel pushes innovative thinkers from a spectrum of environmental engineering and science professions (e.g., environmental justice, education, policymakers, utility, and infrastructure experts) to articulate what they view as needed now, what is needed in the long term, and what the AEESP community can do to support the grand goals of our profession: protecting human and ecological health while promoting sustainable systems.