Daniela is the co-founder of the Reimagine Development Partners. She is an educator and expert in urban disaster resilience and community development. Prior to launching Reimagine, Daniela spent fifteen years supporting both the post-Katrina housing recovery in New Orleans and assisting local governments throughout Latin America with resilience and recovery policy creation. Her roles as Field Operations Director and later Executive Director of Rebuilding Together New Orleans (RTNO) resulted in the reconstruction a thousand homes in the city’s most vulnerable communities. She then spent five years as a member of the Louisiana Land Trust’s executive team, where she orchestrated partnerships with local governments, private developers, and community stakeholders to dispose of twelve thousand properties statewide. Daniela implemented several Federal incentives and programs targeting housing affordability and development in recovery efforts, including the Low-income Housing Tax Credit and the Neighborhood Stabilization Program. In addition to her work with many communities, Daniela has rebuilt, owns and operates 12 housing units in New Orleans. Daniela is a professor in the Sustainable Real Estate Development Program at Tulane University, where she has taught since 2014. Daniela holds a degree in industrial engineering from St. Paul Catholic University of Bolivia, a Master of Economics from Tulane University, and is currently an Economics Ph.D. candidate at Tulane.