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Michelle Beasley
Strategist & Program Delivery Advisor
Emergency management and disaster-planning leader. Former FEMA Federal Disaster Recovery Officer.
DRIS™ Advisory Council · DRISAC™
Cross-sector expertise.
Stronger resilience intelligence.
The DRIS™ Advisory Council brings real-world experience to the calibration and validation of the Resilience Index at the core of DRIS™.
Purpose & role
Intelligence informed by the environments it must serve.
The Council represents emergency management, public policy, technology, cybersecurity, workforce strategy, enterprise risk, public service, and community leadership.
Its cross-sector perspective helps SkillVantage challenge assumptions, strengthen calibration, and keep the DRIS™ Resilience Index grounded in operational realities across public- and private-sector environments.
Council leadership
Will Conaway
Fractional Chief Operating Officer & DRIS™ Advisory Council Lead
Award-winning technology executive with expertise in AI, health systems, enterprise strategy, and organizational transformation. He teaches at Cornell University and eCornell.
Cross-sector representation
Meet the DRIS™
Advisory Council.
Each member contributes a distinct perspective to the Council’s shared responsibility: strengthening the relevance and integrity of DRIS™ resilience intelligence.
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Marceen A. Burgher
SkillVantage Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Former FEMA Equity Advisor, private-sector HR director, and government consultant focused on organizational intelligence and resilience.
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Dr. Cassandra R. Davis
Public Policy & Disaster Resilience Scholar
Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research examines the impact of natural disasters on low-income communities of color.
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Bianca Forde, Esq.
Enterprise Risk & Integrity Leader
Former federal prosecutor with expertise in accountability, organizational integrity, crisis decision-making, and enterprise risk.
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Lester Ingol
Strategy & Global Acquisitions Executive
Operations and strategy leader. Retired FEMA Senior Executive Service official with extensive federal leadership experience.
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Yolanda Jackson
Disaster Mitigation & Resilience Advisor
Former FEMA Federal Coordinating Officer and current mitigation and resilience leader with experience guiding complex disaster operations, recovery, public assistance, and community resilience.
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Dr. Flora Lawson
Human Resources Consultant & Strategist
Entrepreneur and philanthropist. Retired FEMA GS-15 human-capital leader with deep expertise in workforce strategy.
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Elihu Miles
Technology & Organizational Strategy Advisor
AWS technologist, entrepreneur, and change manager specializing in strategic problem-solving, growth, organizational strategy, and market strategy.
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Alvin Notice
Community Leadership & Public-Service Advisor
Entrepreneur, philanthropist, and President of The Tiana Notice Foundation. Former Deputy Superintendent for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
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Samuel Petrucci
SkillVantage AI & Technology Specialist
Cloud and AI engineer, AWS-certified technologist, and entrepreneur focused on intelligent product development and systems architecture.
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Sheena Studdard
SkillVantage Director, Cybersecurity & Risk
Cybersecurity and technology-program leader with experience supporting federal security, compliance, readiness, and risk strategy.
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Kevin A. Wallace
SkillVantage Director, Organization Resilience
Retired U.S. Army veteran and former FEMA Federal Coordinating Officer with extensive disaster-operations and interagency-coordination experience.
Private deployment. Informed leadership.