When Crisis Calls We Answer Two women rewriting the rules in crisis management By Otibho Edeke Agbareh & Natalie Fairchild For International Women’s Day 2026 There’s a particular feeling you get when you walk into a room and realise you’re the only woman there. Again. It’s not fear. We’ve both stood in the wreckage of disasters, coordinated responses to terror attacks, and held the hands of grieving families. We know what fear is. This is something else. It’s the weight of knowing that your voice will be questioned more, your expertise doubted longer, your compassion mistaken for weakness. Between us,…
Author: Otibho Edeke Agbareh and Natalie Fairchild
Otibho Edeke Agbareh and Natalie Fairchild
Otibho Edeke Agbareh and Natalie Fairchild are internationally recognised crisis management and humanitarian response specialists with extensive experience across aviation disasters, terror attacks, mass fatality incidents and complex humanitarian crises. Otibho brings global leadership in family assistance and identification, serving as a UN ICAO certified expert and Working Group member, with a career spanning clinical frontline care, humanitarian leadership and doctoral research on families of missing persons. Natalie contributes deep operational and strategic expertise across UN classified organisations, public contingency planning, humanitarian response and crisis consultancy, with a strong focus on enhancing humanitarian assistance through innovation and technology. Together, they co founded CrisisDNA to advance compassionate, effective and resilient crisis preparedness and response worldwide.
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