Allison Dworschak
Director, Caribbean Resilience Initiative @Mercy Corps
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WORK HISTORY
Director, Caribbean Resilience Initiative @Mercy Corps
Oversight and management of $10 million, multi-country portfolioStrategic leadership and growth planning including private donors, foundations and institutional donorsOversee implementation of programming across 14 jurisdictions in the Caribbean, including US Territories and CARICOM regionPortfolio includes Resilient Infrastructure, Resilience Hubs, Climate adaptation, community engagement, climate adaptive agriculture, restorative agriculture, market systems development, solar and renewable energy access, blue economy and green economic development, resilient livelihoods, emergency response, government partnershipsTeam management and development, budget management
EDUCATION
University of Portland
Master of Arts (MA), Teaching
University of Oregon
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Journalism and History
SKILLS
ABOUT ALLISON DWORSCHAK
We build resilient communities in Caribbean small island developing States. We identify and scale strategies across Caribbean SIDS to ensure vulnerable people can depend on basic infrastructure, their livelihoods and protective ecosystems through the coming decades of severe climate change impacts. Worsening environmental risks like rising and warming seas, and increasingly volatile dry and wet seasons mean that SIDS bear the brunt of the impacts of climate change, even though their carbon footprint is small relative to the world’s largest carbon producers.The developing economies within the Caribbean are also economically dependent on sectors vulnerable to climate patterns like fisheries, agriculture and tourism. Natural resources like coral reefs, mangrove forests and fresh water systems critical to both the ecology and economies of these communities are deteriorating. Without intervention, annual losses caused by climate change in the Caribbean are estimated to reach $22 billion by 2050. Caribbean SIDS need resilience strategies that will enable these countries and their largely coastal communities to survive and thrive through the climate crisis.
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