Sara McBride

Sara McBride is a social scientist and Crisis Communication Response Leader with 18 years progressive experience in risk, hazard, science communication, public education, disaster risk reduction, community resilience, and international humanitarian response. McBride is a social scientist with methodology expertise in mixed methods and a specialty in content and critical analysis. Her professional communications accomplishments include serving as Public Information Manager for GeoNet/GNS Science during the Kaikoura Earthquake and Second-in-Command for Christchurch Earthquake Response. Her extensive international and domestic on-site crisis communication and emergency management experience includes work in New Zealand, Solomon Islands, Samoa, Fiji, Namibia, Hawai’i, and Washington. She is proficient in French and Solomon Islands Pidgin.