Caroline Cunningham

Caroline Cunningham is a hazard mitigation and climate resilience expert who has supported over 300 federal, local, state, territorial, tribal, university, and private sector clients. She is a certified floodplain manager, professional planner, and charrette facilitator, and thrives on bringing ingenuity to the most challenging resilience issues. She has led more than 50 hazard mitigation and climate adaptation plans and brings expertise in multi-hazard risk assessment, outreach and engagement, policy, and grants, which give her the necessary knowledge to advance ideas into risk reduction action. Cunningham has led and contributed to projects such as: the Mitigation Benefits Estimator, an application that simplifies benefit-cost analyses to aid decision makers in optimizing land use decisions; Honolulu’s Climate Design Guidelines which will promote safer building; Amtrak’s Climate Resilience Strategic Plan which guides the infusion of adaptation measures into processes and practices; New Orleans Blue-Green Corridors which activates floodplains and water as a community resource; and “Just Imagine Southwest Louisiana,” a resilience master plan for Southwest Louisiana and recipient of a Congress of New Urbanism award for Excellence in Urban Design.

Prior to joining Dewberry, she helped envision, grow, and lead resilience services for a top 10 global design firm and is currently overseeing Dewberry’s resilience strategy. She serves as Treasurer for the National Hazard Mitigation Association and is a Federal Emergency Management Agency-authorized hazard mitigation trainer, further exemplifying her knowledge in the field.