Dr Pamela Gloria Cajilig is an anthropologist with 25 years of experience at the junctures of research, consulting, and advocating for community-centered interventions in disaster management and climate adaptation. She recently joined the UP Diliman College of Architecture as a Professorial Lecturer and is co-founder of Curiosity, a design research consultancy that has, since its establishment in 2012, completed over 300 research, training, and workshop projects in human-centered design for civic, public, and private institutions. She is a Global Fellow doing research on NGO decision-making during complex disasters at the Brown University Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies, a former trainor in inclusive nature-based flood management for World Wildlife Fund USA's Environment and Disaster Management, as well as a consultant for the determining the impact of locally-led humanitarian research in the Asia Pacific Region for the Humanitarian Advisory Group. Pamela finished her PhD in Architecture and Design at RMIT University where her research on post-disaster housing reconstruction in Manila Bay explored fisherfolks' design and citizenship practices. Her efforts in participatory disaster management were recognised by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction and Australian Government during the 2021 Asia-Pacific Women’s International Leadership Awards.