Evan Anthony is a second-year graduate candidate with a specialization in Humanitarian Crises & Displacement. His academic interests lie at the intersection of displacement and development, pairing a quantitative and evaluation skillset with practical, hands-on emergency medical training and casework experience.

Prior to attending Georgetown, Evan was a Regional Disaster Response & Recovery Specialist with American Red Cross, where he served in sheltering and casework leadership positions on multiple deployments to Guam, California, and Florida, in addition to his “blue skies” role coordinating home fire response to nearly 10 million residents of the Northern California Region. At SBP, a disaster recovery nonprofit in Louisiana, Evan founded the FEMA Appeals Program to advocate for rural, indigenous, and low-income residents in disaster-stricken areas of southern Louisiana during the fallout of two major hurricanes. This program went on to return over $1 million in additional rebuilding assistance to over 300 households and has since expanded to four other states. Evan’s development experience as a Peace Corps volunteer in Senegal from 2019-2020 serves as a foundation for his technical skills, intercultural communication, and language skills.

Evan speaks Wolof, Spanish, and basic French. He received a Bachelor of Arts in economics from Tufts University in 2016. He intends to lead a career in international crisis response and recovery, utilizing a development framework to lead efficacious efforts alongside local communities.

Summer Internship

Evan served as a Shelter & Non-Food Items (SNFI) Intern with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Burundi during the summer of 2024, where he was involved in field operations on two overlapping disaster response projects along the coast of Lake Tanganyika, the development of a project proposal for a third, and the evaluation of a fourth project, closed in 2022.

Burundi, one of the world’s most at-risk countries for climate-related disaster, was inundated by unseasonably high rainfall due to the El Niño weather pattern of 2023-2024, resulting in historically high lake levels and widespread internal displacement in 2024. Evan joined IOM’s SNFI team at a critical moment as it worked to conduct community assessments, deliver cash assistance, provide cash-for-work training, procure material support for affected communities, and make protection referrals in almost every province in Burundi during the critical dry season from May through August.

Evan was involved in developing needs assessment tools to determine shelter needs for a USAID Bureau of Humanitarian Assistance (BHA)-funded project in Rumonge, where the field team conducted dozens of focus group discussions and market studies to inform project rollout. Evan then accompanied the field team on a needs assessment mission to Makamba for a Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF)-funded project to rapidly deliver shelter support to over 3,400 impacted households in Nyanza-Lac, where he routinely drafted questionnaires for local communities and provincial authorities, tracked responses, and submitted field reports during his nearly 5 weeks in the field on both projects.

In the office, Evan drafted a Concept Note for a new Japanese-funded relief project in the northern provinces of Burundi, which was ultimately funded after his departure, and participated in the management of an external evaluation of a multi-phased project for returnees following political displacement in 2015. Through involvement in many different environments and context, from project initiation to implementation to close-out, Evan has further invigorated his drive as a member of the international humanitarian response community.

This Fall, Evan will take classes in pursuit of his Refugees, Migration, and Humanitarian Emergencies certificate through the Institute for the Study of International Migration at Georgetown and work towards completion of his Global Health Concentration as part of his studies in the Global Human Development Program.