Stacy Bourne, FAIA, NOMA is the founding principal of The Bourne Group, LLC (est. 2000), a practice that uses hurricane resilient design to catalyze social change through community engaged work. She directly managed $50M+ in post disaster recovery—spanning assessments, architecture, and engineering—after Hurricanes Irma and Maria, and is advancing resilient systems, materials, and policies across the Gulf states and Midwest. Originally from St. Louis, Stacy has spent three decades navigating a dozen major storms in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Her early practice focused on custom homes that leverage site, views, cross ventilation, and water stewardship (rainwater harvesting, septic systems, leach fields) while mastering steep terrain and seismic requirements. She later led FEMA funded roof ...