Natasha Udu-gama

Natasha Udu-gama serves as the community and international relations manager responsible for building community partnerships, leading AGU Thriving Earth Exchange’s international program development, and serving as a community liaison to our domestic community science projects.

Udu-gama brings over 10 years of experience in disaster risk reduction, early warning systems, and climate change adaptation fields to AGU Thriving Earth Exchange. Udu-gama has extensive experience in community engagement, partnership, and development at the local, national and international scales. Her PhD in environment and geography specializing in multi-sector partnerships for effective and sustainable community-owned early warning systems is from Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. 

Before joining AGU Thriving Earth Exchange, Udu-gama has served as a consultant for the Northern Virginia Emergency Response System and Virginia Tech’s Advanced Research Institute in Arlington County. In addition, she was a project advisor for Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction Programmes with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies’ South East Asia Regional Office in Bangkok, Thailand. In her spare time, Udu-gama is a boxer, kayaker, and avid cyclist. She is also a budding voice actor.