Sara McBride is a social scientist and crisis communication response leader with 22 years of progressive experience in risk, hazard, science communication, public education, disaster risk reduction, community resilience, and international humanitarian response. McBride has methodology expertise in mixed methods and a specialty in content and critical analysis. Her professional communications accomplishments include serving as chief of operations for the U.S. Geological Survey in the 2020 Puerto Rico Southwestern Earthquake Sequence, public information manager for GeoNet/Geographic Names Server 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.