Angie Z. Valencia

Director of Executive Operations & Special Projects

Angie Valencia is the Director of Executive Operations & Special Projects

In this position, she serves as a trusted partner to the Institute Founding Director, helping him to manage operational priorities across GRI, supporting research and industry strategy development, and coordinating cross-functional collaboration. Valencia works closely with the Founding Director to support the development and execution its strategic research goals under the newly launched Defense Industrial Base Initiative (DIBI) as well as those of existing, past and future federal research grants (NOAA, USAID, FEMA) under the Global Resilience Institute. Angie mentors a group of talented next generation resilience leaders (Graduate and Undergraduate students) that help to support those efforts. Angie has over 10 years experience in Higher Education research at Northeastern, helping to manage all initiatives of the Global Resilience Institute (2017 -now) and the Global Resilience Research Network (GRRN), founded in April 2018 in collaboration with Fraunhofer EMI.

Angie has previously worked at Marriott, Bank of America and at C-space, a global customer research collaboration agency, where she helped client services teams in project management, supported work with international brands,  and helped to drive consumer insights in Spanish and English via online communities. Angie has over 15 years experience supporting in person consumer projects, large and small scale events in person/remote. During her time in Miami, Florida she worked for a luxury distributor that helped to build the presence of luxury brands in Latin America and the Caribbean through innovative marketing and retailer support. Born in Isla de San Andres, Colombia, Valencia graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Anthropology and a minor in Latin American and Caribbean studies from Connecticut College in New London, CT.