View From the Frontier

View from the Frontier is an ongoing series of conversations with pioneers building resilience.

Nick Mitchell-Bennett

Executive Director
come dream. come build. (cdbd)

Krista Egger

Vice President, National Initiatives
Enterprise Community Partners

Jesse M. Keenan

Professor
Tulane School of Architecture

Bill Fazioli

Executive Director
Rhode Island Infrastructure Bank (RIIB)

Kevin Shafer

Executive Director
Milkwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District (MMSD)

Dave Winnacker

Co-founder and Retired Fire Chief
xyloplan

Mark Brown

Executive Officer
Marin Wildfire Prevention Authority

Tim Vordtriede

Founder
Altadena Coalition

Kristen Fanarakis

Associate Director, Small Business Policy and Innovation
Milken Institute

Commissioner Mark Fowler

Alabama Department of Insurance | Commissioner of Insurance
Alabama Resilience Council

Abby Ross

Founder
The Resiliency Company

Shalini Vajjhala

Executive Director
PRE Collective

Amy Chester

Director
Rebuild by Design

Nancy Watkins

Principal
WUI Data Commons / Milliman

Lori Moore-Merrell

Former U.S. Fire Administrator
Former US Fire Marshall

Paul Robinson

Executive Director
RISE

Carolyn Kousky

Founder and Executive Director
Insurance for Good / EDF

Join us as we learn from innovators working at the frontier of building more resilient communities in the face of increasing weather-related risk.

Each year, we review the work of thousands of organizations to identify the individuals who are fundamentally rethinking how resilience is built across communities, markets, and institutions. From that broad scan, we talk to more than one hundred people working at the frontier.

 

View from the Frontier brings these conversations together, inviting you into a process that examines how changes in market structures reshape the choices available to people — and how those choices can lead to better outcomes for people and communities.

This isn’t a one-time study or a static map. It’s a living process of learning as the field evolves.

What this work makes clear is that no single approach is sufficient.

 

Resilience is emerging through many different structural innovations, often in parallel. Many of these efforts are still early. Others do not yet exist. What exists today is not enough to meet the magnitude of the challenge.

The opportunity lies in learning from what is already emerging and in helping more of this work take shape.

Join us at the frontier.