Advancing Resilient Communities
and Thriving Ecosystems
CORE SERVICES
A-Squared (A²) Resilience Advisors partners with government, NGO, and private sector organizations to meet their climate-related risk, adaptation, and resilience goals with the following core services:
Strategic Collaboration & Program Design
Strategic Collaboration on Resilience:
Advise government, private sector, and NGO leaders on integrating climate risk and adaptation considerations into sector-based programming — including coastal, marine, and urban areas — to achieve long-term resilience and sustainability goals.
Adaptation Program Design:
Lead the development of high-impact adaptation and resilience programming including concept design, participant and donor mapping, and implementation.
Capacity Strengthening & Technical Resources
Capacity Strengthening:
Design and administer customized learning experiences that enable professionals to build practical skills in climate risk management and adaptation to prepare for and respond to potential future events.
Technical Resources:
Develop and deliver tailored tools, briefings, and decision-support resources that translate complex science and policy into actionable insights.
Facilitation & Forums
Cross-Sector Collaboration: Organize and facilitate curated sessions that bring together diverse partners across the public and private sectors to advance shared resilience goals.
Forum Design and Execution: Conceptualize, convene, and moderate expert panels, workshops, side-events, strategic meetings, and other symposia on adaptation and resilience, inclusive development, environmental justice, and climate integration.
EXAMPLES OF RECENT EXPERIENCE
Program Design: Designed and launched a new $3 million interdisciplinary research program to identify climate change impacts on U.S. fisheries and fishing communities at NOAA. By establishing clear priorities, evaluation criteria, and stakeholder engagement processes, the program funded 12+ research projects that strengthened community awareness and developed new practices to better prepare fishermen and working waterfronts for future climate risks.
Policy Development: Led a collaborative multi-stakeholder process to develop an agency-wide climate integration policy resulting in a framework for USAID Mission teams to improve actionable roadmaps for embedding climate considerations into their core programming.
International Climate Diplomacy: Coordinated USAID representation at three United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties (COP), managing agency-wide deliverables and developing side-events, bilateral meetings, and strategic engagement to ensure alignment between U.S. development priorities and international climate commitments.
Climate Training: Organized and delivered a climate integration training for Mission team members (40+ participants), strengthening their understanding of regional climate risks and equipping them with practical tools to embed climate considerations across their programming portfolios — from agriculture and health to education.
About Adrienne Antoine
Adrienne Antoine is a sustainability, resilience, and adaptation advisor with over 15 years of experience turning climate and environmental science into action. As a former U.S. Government senior leader, she has built and led high-impact programs across domestic and international contexts. Adrienne brings technical depth through her work on climate services, strategic insights from working across the public, private, and NGO sectors, and an extensive network of scientists, managers, advocates, and policymakers working across the environment and climate sectors.
Her work has produced real, measurable impacts: advancing cutting-edge adaptation practices in coastal communities across the U.S.; bridging scientific disciplines with local and industry knowledge to promote sustainable fisheries; building capacity among natural resource managers to connect marine ecosystem health with long-term climate resilience; and helping international development teams translate complex climate risks into concrete portfolio strategies. A culturally agile collaborator, Adrienne excels at navigating diverse cultural contexts and facilitating strong and effective collaboration across stakeholders of different backgrounds.
