Our Team

Carmin is a disaster and emergency management, climate justice and gender specialist who is passionate about collaborative, inclusive, and gender transformative approaches.  She specializes in gender mainstreaming, human rights-based approaches to gender-based violence (GBV), social inclusion, GBV in emergencies, and gender in disaster management. She has the combined experience of 15+ years working in disaster and emergency management, social/human services, and humanitarian response for governments, non-profit organizations, and international agencies. 

 Carmin has worked on community resilience and emergency preparedness projects that have received provincial recognition and media attention for their innovative and collaborative approaches, including a tsunami preparedness project in Haida Gwaii and a community resilience project in Rocky View County that received the Government of Alberta’s Emergency Management Exemplary Service Award.  

Carmin’s experience also extends internationally to the Caribbean where she consulted for the United Nations Development Programme on gender transformative climate risk management pilot projects and disaster recovery programs in 10 Caribbean countries. 

Carmin is also an experienced trainer and public speaker and has developed and facilitated capacity building programes for a wide range of audiences. She also participates as a guest speaker in presentations and trainings focusing on gender and disaster and climate justice.

Philip has a professional background in Architecture, Planning, Production and portfolio techniques from Howard University in Washington, DC. He practiced in DC and Barbados and is a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Associate. He went on to work with the Barbados Government in 2012 at their Planning and Development Department, a division of the Prime Minister's Office.  During this time Philip studied Urban Design at the Shanghai Business School in 2018 and was involved in various entrepreneurial ventures including but not limited to entertainment, retail, media, hospitality and property management while working with private Architects, Developers and public Planners mainly in Barbados and New York City. 

More recently Philip was part of the Government Team and a key facilitator for the amendment to Barbados' Physical Development Plan, Amended 2023. He recently graduated with an MPhil (Hons) in Planning, Growth and Regeneration from the University of Cambridge (2024) and researched the suitability of international rating systems such as LEED for developing nations at the neighborhood and city scales. 

He is currently a candidate for a PhD in Land Economy, 2028 which will investigate the drivers and barriers associated with energy efficiency at the household and neighborhood scales. This work may have major policy implications in resource and debt constrained regions. Philip spends his free time reading, competing in triathlons and table tennis.