RESILIENCE IN ACTION

PERSPECTIVES ON CITY AND COMMUNITY RESILIENCE

Wednesday, July 21, 2021 | 12:00-1:30, AST

lets talk about resilience.

Resilience is often used to describe the ability of a community, small or large, to withstand the impacts of a major shock and rebound after. We usually consider shocks to be an earthquake or a hurricane, but it can also mean social unrest or economic downfall. How can we plan for, and become resilient to, so many different threats?

In this series, we will discuss the what and the how of achieving community resilience. Join us for a really exciting event where two resilience experts share their insights on what it takes to build resilient communities, either within or outside of government!

Guest Speakers

Dr. Pepukaye Bardouille is Resilience Lead, Global Upstream Infrastructure Group at IFC - International Finance Corporation. She was previously Chief Executive Officer of the Climate Resilience Execution Agency for Dominica (CREAD), where she was leading the design and delivery—together with key government agencies, business community, social sector and international development partners—of a comprehensive action plan to advance the achievement of Dominica’s bold vision to become the world’s first climate resilient nation.

Prior to taking the helm of CREAD, she was a Senior Operations Officer with the International Finance Corporation (IFC), part of the World Bank Group, developing and scaling-up innovative, commercially-viable business models to extend electricity to the base of the pyramid in several countries, including South Africa, Tanzania, Togo, Zambia and India. Before that, she was a Senior Engagement Manager with McKinsey & Company, working across 20 countries serving top teams from blue chip companies in the power, oil, gas and mining sectors and leading public sector entities on strategy, organizational design and operational improvement.

Pepukaye is a Dominican national and has lived and worked in two dozen countries. She holds a BSc. in Mechanical Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology (USA), MSc. in Environmental Management from the National Institute for Applied Sciences (France) and PhD in Energy and Environmental Systems Studies from Lund Institute of Technology (Sweden).

Dr. Atyia Martin is the CEO and Founder of All Aces, Inc., an alternative to traditional diversity, equity, and inclusion consulting firms. Her personal mission is to unleash the invisible power that every person and organization has to intentionally act to disrupt oppression.

Dr. Martin has over 20 years of experience applying the principles of racial equity and social justice during her career in resilience, emergency management, public health, and intelligence. She has published in scholarly journals and is the author of We Are the Question + the Answer: Break the Collective Habit of Racism + Build Resilience for Racial Equity in Ourselves and Our Organizations. Additionally, she is a Distinguished Senior Fellow at Northeastern University's Global Resilience Institute.

Dr. Martin is a certified emergency manager with an Associate of Arts in Serbian Croatian from the Defense Language Institute (DLI), Bachelor of Science from Excelsior College, a Master of Homeland Security Leadership from the University of Connecticut, and a Doctorate of Law and Policy from Northeastern University. Dr. Martin and her husband were born and raised in Boston where they currently live. They have five children, two still at home.