PLOTS is open for anyone to join -- please sign up! However, 7 staff members run the PLOTS organization, supporting the broader research community and coordinating events, strategizing, leading trips, fundraising and facilitating open source publication of the community's work, along with a variety of other tasks. The staff includes:

• Liz Barry: Director of Urban Environments Director of TreeKIT; Faculty at Parsons, Pratt, Columbia. Urban designer and landscape architect, SOM 2007-09
• Shannon Dosemagen: Director of Community Engagement, Education and Outreach Researcher and Ethnographer, Louisiana State University Anthropology and Geography Dept. 2011-2012; Oil Spill Response Coordinator, Louisiana Bucket Brigade 2009-11; Grassroots Mapping Gulf Coast Coordinator; M.S. Anthropology 2009
• Adam Griffith: Director of Science and Coastal Environments Director of The Rivercane Restoration Project through the Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines at Western Carolina University, Teach for America, 1999-2001
• Stewart Long: Director of Geography and Data GonzoEarth mapping services, Grassroots Mapping Gulf Coast map processing & publication lead
• Mathew Lippincott: Director of Production and Production in Education Artist and Designer, Co-Founder of Cloacina; Partner, Biluna Birotunda Design; B.A. Oberlin College
• Jeffrey Warren: Director of Research Center for Civic Media Fellow, 2008-10; Partner & co-founder, Vestal Design; B.A. Yale; M.S. MIT, 2010; Cartographer
• Sara Wylie: Director of Toxics and Health Research, PhD MIT History Anthropology Science Technology and Society, Co-Directed MIT Center for Civic Media ExtrAct Project, Part-time faculty RISD Digital+Media Department, B.A. University of Chicago.