Michèle Companion, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Colorado-Colorado Springs, is an applied sociologist. Michèle is a disaster specialist, working as a humanitarian aid response coordinator and specializing in food and livelihood security. She has served as a consultant for U.S. and international humanitarian aid organizations, using a sociological lens to engage in all phases of disaster risk reduction, preparedness, mitigation, response, and recovery work, along with policy development. Recent work with global Indigenous populations focuses on food security, food sovereignty, cultural survival, livelihood preservation, and access to traditional foods and medicines. She conducts training on blending Traditional Ecological Knowledge and site mapping techniques to empower communities, employing sociological concepts of mobilization, identify formation, and ethnographic methodologies. She is the President of the International Research Committee on Disasters, Secretary and Board Member of The Lowlander Center, and Chair of the International Coordinating Committee for the Natural Hazard Mitigation Association, among other roles. She is the editor for the Indigenous Studies: International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives series with Berghahn Books, which purposefully highlights the work of and with global Indigenous communities.