Nyingilanyeofori Hannah Brown

Nyingilanyeofori Hannah Brown is the program coordinator for the NSF CRISES planning grant for the Climate Inequality and Integrative Resilience Center (CLIIR center) at the University of Massachusetts Boston. With a background in civil engineering, sustainable development, community resilience, coexistence, conflict resolution, and security, she is also a trained mediator and a consultant for the United Nations Development Programme.

Nyingilanyeofori is a transdisciplinary scholar and has over twelve years of research and program management experience. Her work includes  various projects focusing on sustainable development, social equity, climate change and inequality, governance, peace and security, DEI, community building and resilience, intercultural communication, cultural competency and humility, and social responsibility. Hannah has also worked with various development agencies, including the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and Corporación para el Desarrollo Sostenible del Archipiélago de San Andrés, Providencia y Santa Catalina, Colombia (CORALINA). 

She has trained senior-level development practitioners and top-level security officers from Gulf of Guinea countries (Angola, Cameroun, Cote d'Ivoire, Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Nigeria) and has taught graduate and undergraduate courses at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Global Governance and Human Security program at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, she earned her BTech in Civil Engineering from Rivers State University (Nigeria) and holds two Master's degrees in Sustainable International Development and Coexistence and Conflict from Brandeis University.