Eva is the Founder & President of Civil Protection Youth Canada (CPYC), a not-for-profit organisation focused on building community resilience and disaster readiness through youth engagement. As an expert on citizen-based disaster response, Eva writes, teaches, lectures and broadcasts extensively on the subject. She has advocated for the creation of a federal agency for disaster response and recovery for over a decade. Hers is a proven approach, though novel to Canada, based on training and equipping volunteer detachments across the country. Eva regularly briefs stakeholders on the concept of a civil protection agency, including ministers, MPs, senior officials, emergency management professionals, and first responders. Eva’s expertise is based on a broad range of training, experience, and research. She served with the German Federal Agency for Technical Relief (Technisches Hilfswerk, THW), an all hazards government civil protection organization based on volunteer experts, which she sees as an exemplary model to be tailored to Canadian needs. She has led various Canadian delegations on study-visits to the THW in Germany and she has initiated and hosted discussions between senior THW officials and Canadian stakeholders.