Built for public-sector partnership.

Core Competencies

• Disaster Risk Management — mitigation funding access, preparedness planning and training, emergency response coordination, and post-disaster recovery strategy across the full risk cycle.
• Nature Based Solutions — ecological design, climate data integration, and community-led mitigation systems, including coastal and mangrove-based flood defense.
• Applied Research & Grant Strategy — university and national-lab partnerships to pilot and quantify disaster-risk-reduction interventions, including FEMA BRIC/HMGP-aligned mitigation funding strategy.
• Humanitarian & Emergency Operations Advisory — drawing on direct field deployment experience with national disaster management authorities and UN coordination bodies.

Differentiators

• Founder-led by an applied field researcher with direct disaster-resilience fieldwork across Africa, Peru, and Turkey, holding a Master of Science in Disaster Resilience Leadership from Tulane University.
• Multidisciplinary bench: a licensed architect (AIA) specializing in disaster-resilient design, a climate-policy specialist with renewable-energy sector experience, and a humanitarian operations lead with 17+ years of field deployment.
• Direct fieldwork across Africa, South America, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia — not desk-based consulting.
• Custom-built deliverables, not templates — data, visualizations, and monitoring tools developed around each client's specific risk profile rather than generic, one-size-fits-all reporting.

Leadership

• Lugine Gray — Founder. U.S. veteran, Hurricane Katrina survivor, MS in Disaster Resilience Leadership (Tulane). Built Louisiana's first statewide anti-trafficking model applying DRR frameworks; led national trainings with the U.S. Department of Education.
• Merina Sofiati — Chief Resilience Officer. 17+ years with Indonesia's BNPB, ASEAN ERAT, and UN UNDAC; MSc Disaster Resilience Leadership (Tulane); PhD candidate, UCL Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction.
• Marcus Calhoun, AIA — Architect, disaster-resilient and sustainable design; 20+ years in post-disaster reconstruction and green infrastructure.
• Magaly Ines Beltrán — Renewable energy and climate-policy specialist; partnerships with UN Women and Bolivia's Plurinational Authority of Mother Earth.

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