About.

The Flood Resilience Challenge (FRC) Game brings together a variety of stakeholders who affect, and are affected by, flooding in order to better understand different perspectives and interests to enhance decision-making.

Meet the Team

Eva (Evalyna) Bogdan
Co-designer

Evalyna is fascinated by crises and disasters and the opportunities they present for learning and changes. She is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Waterloo. Her research focuses on building capacity for difficult conversations on flood risk management in Canada. She received her doctorate and masters from the University of Alberta and has travelled, worked, and volunteered on four continents. She met Heather at IHE-Delft during a visiting scholarship to the Netherlands to learn about their Room for the River program. Evalyna applies an interdisciplinary lens and innovative stakeholder engagement approaches for addressing complex social and environmental issues. Visit evabogdan.ca for more information.

Heather Murdock
Co-designer

Heather's passion is urban infrastructure, water and resilient communities. As a civil engineer focused on flood risk management, she has developed skills in the areas of hazard and vulnerability assessment as well as planning, policy and stakeholder engagement. She holds a masters from IHE-Delft and a Bachelor's from Queen's University and has worked on three continents. Heather is passionate about working with communities on flood resilience and adaptation, including serious gaming. She has also engaged K-12 students on flood and climate adaptation through her volunteer work with Science World's Scientists in Schools program.

Sina Golchi
Assistant

Sina Golchi is the mastermind behind transferring the in-person version of the FRC game online. He received his BEng. in Chemical Engineering from Science and Research University in Iran. His capstone project was on carbon quantum dots and their applications. He has participated in two research studies on waste and wastewater management and renewable energies as a research assistant during his undergraduate program. In October 2018, Sina joined the NSERC Chair in Water Treatment as a MASc. candidate in Civil and Environmental Engineering (Water) at the University of Waterloo.

Shaieree Cottar
Communications

Shaieree has primarily facilitated with technical logistics and Zoom operations after transiting the FRC game to a virtual setting.  She is a PhD student in the Department of Geography and Environmental Management at the University of Waterloo and the coordinator for the Canadian Coastal Resilience Forum. Her research is on flood risk governance and Canadian policies related to disaster recovery, managed or planned retreat and resilience building against hazards. She is particularly interested in analyzing the feasibility and implications of managed retreat strategies for regions who face repeated risk of flooding and the long-term fiscal and social impacts on ‘receiving’ communities. Shaieree has a breadth of experience working in academia and the public sector from working for the Ontario Public Service to Environmental NGOs in the global south. She received her masters from the University of Waterloo and a Bachelor’s from York University.

AC Atienza
Design

AC Atienza is a board game designer and graphic designer focused on FRC's visual design. They completed their Masters in Experimental Digital Media at the University of Waterloo in 2020. Their Major Research Project explored how games harness medium-specific affordances to aid in expression. Prior to FRC, AC built experience publishing games in different fields including "Captain's Gambit", funded on Kickstarter; "Energize", built in the Perimeter Institute; and "The Golden Ticket Game", released in Target. AC merges their academic and industry experience with board games to meet the challenge of optimizing visuals for both the playing and learning experience.
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