Sandra Carrasco is a Peruvian–Australian academic and Lecturer in Humanitarianism and Development at Deakin University. She previously held postdoctoral roles in architecture and disaster resilience at the University of Newcastle and the University of Melbourne. Sandra holds a PhD and a master’s in environmental management from Kyoto University, Japan, and a master’s in education from Victoria University, Australia. She has worked across the Americas, Asia, and Oceania, with research interests in equality, diversity, and inclusion; community resilience and sustainable development; disaster risk reduction and recovery; governance and planning; incremental housing; urban poverty; and migrant and refugee studies.