Alaina Callinan Promoted to Business Line Director - Disaster and Resilience

Alaina Callinan has been promoted to Business Line Director – Disaster and Resilience for our South Region. In this role, Alaina will work with our Disaster Resilience teams across the South Region, with a focus on overseeing the environmental review process for all HUD-assisted disaster recovery and resilience projects, providing guidance and technical assistance to staff, subrecipients, and partners, working collaboratively with various teams to meet the needs of projects, and ensuring solid program procedures and processes resulting in technical excellence.

Alaina has spent more than 11 years managing large, federally funded grant programs, primarily with HUD, with a focus on disaster recovery, resilience, and environmental compliance. Before joining SWCA, she served as Assistant Director of Community Development for Orange County, NY, where she oversaw millions in HUD funding and developed policies later adopted as best practices by HUD Region II.

Earlier in her career, Alaina worked as an environmental consultant supporting the distribution of $54 million in disaster recovery funds to small businesses through the Governor’s Office of Storm Recovery. She also taught NEPA as an adjunct professor at her alma mater.