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Monica Sanders

Monica Sanders JD, LL.M, is the founder of “The Undivide Project”, an organisation dedicated to creating climate resilience in underserved communities via Internet infrastructure and service-centred IoT solutions. She is also Faculty at the Georgetown University Law Centre and a Senior Fellow at the Tulane University Disaster Resilience Leadership Academy. Professor Sanders’ served as a Senior Committee Counsel for both the House of Representatives and Senate Committees on Homeland Security. In those roles, she focused on oversight of disaster response and recovery programmes, cybersecurity, and critical infrastructure protection. Her experience also includes serving as the Senior Legal Advisor for International Response and Programmes at the American Red Cross, and as an attorney for the Small Business Administration during the Hurricane Maria and western wildfires responses. She also studied security and defence–civilian coordination in the European Union Visitor’s Programme and remains involved in crisis response issues as part of the Team Rubicon USA and UNDRR rosters. You can reach Monica on Twitter, or on LinkedIn.