20+ years of experience across 49 countries; I bring people together to create bottom-up change; PhD research on collective action for water security in the face of climate extremes; political ecological lens to understand the role of politics and power in problems and solutions; understanding the links and feedbacks in socio-hydrology and socio-ecology; vulnerability analysis; designing climate policy; designing national level disaster risk reduction strategy; assessing food security; strategic planning for innovative solutions; facilitating community-based adaptation and disaster risk reduction; youth mentoring; visual storytelling; photo instructor of Nat Geo; Climate Justice and Community Action instructor for Harvard Youth Climate Summit; six peer-reviewed papers and a book chapter on climate resilience, with a focus on Nature-based Solutions in the Pacific, Latin America, and the Caribbean; education and community engagement; hope stories to seed and empower change