Tiffany M. Tran

Tiffany Tran is a Vietnamese-American architect and urban designer who is passionate about inclusive and resilient cities. She approaches urban development from a people-centric lens that integrates urban planning, development economics, and environmental justice. Her policy areas of focus include urban poverty, urban informality, public space, mobility and transportation, and climate resilience.

Anna Marie Karaos

Anna Marie Karaos is the Associate Director of John J Carroll Institute on Church and Social Issues, a non-government organization specializing in advocacy-oriented research on issues affecting the urban poor, farmers, fisherfolk, and children in the Philippines. She is also a faculty member of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the Ateneo de Manila University.

Marino Deocariza

Marino Deocariza is an urban planner from Oxfam GB and Team Lead of Asian Development Bank regional technical assistance (TA) Promoting Urban Climate Change Resilience in Selected Asian Cities (Subproject 3). This TA project is implemented in eight cities in Bangladesh, Pakistan, and the Philippines which aims to empower poor and vulnerable communities to have stronger voice, agency, and active involvement in tackling the impacts of climate change.

Climate and Disaster Resilience at the Community Level Recording

To strengthen climate and disaster resilience of urban poor communities, a range of programmatic responses need to come together at the community level, including access to risk-informed neighborhood planning, delivery of resilient basic services and community infrastructures, livelihood and skills development, protection of natural resources, and financing for community-led actions.

Samantha Kay Lisay

Samantha Kay L. Lisay is a licensed Architect and a Certified BERDE Professional from the Philippines. After finishing her Bachelor of Science in Architecture at the Polytechnic University of the Philippines in 2014, she had been involved in a number of projects in the residential and commercial sectors. In 2019, she joined Build Change Philippines, to be a Design Architect in charge of using architecture and design to promote resilient housing worldwide.

Lizzie Collins

Lizzie Blaisdell Collins is the Vice President of Engineering for Build Change, a non-profit social enterprise with a critical mission of preventing housing losses caused by disasters. After working early in her career with a private sector earthquake engineering firm in San Francisco, USA, Lizzie joined Build Change’s Haiti team as Lead Structural Engineer, supporting the recovery from the 2010 earthquake.