The Resilient Peeps Team

Based in Oakland, California, Shirah is a certified emergency management specialist, Oakland CERT captain + trainer, Full Spectrum Doula, and community organizer. She brings over a decade of experience in film production, event management, and international program development, working in multiple countries. 

As a multicultural polyglot, she is especially skilled at creating engaging, accessible programs for diverse communities, families, and children. Shirah's work combines practical preparedness, thoughtful systems, and community care to help people support one another before, during, and after emergencies.

Shirah is the founder of the Piedmont Ave Resilience Committee and founder and chair of the East Bay Resilient Neighbor Network, a growing collective of neighborhoods building resilience through connection, preparedness, and mutual support. She's a big believer in preparedness being a collective act of care, on building community in your neighborhood, and in resilience being a form of resistance.

Heidi Harmon brings more than 25 years of community organizing and experience as a three-term mayor to helping businesses, families, and neighborhoods prepare for disruption and shape what comes next. As a mother and longtime early childhood educator, she wants families to feel prepared and children to feel capable, included, and safe. As a former mayor, she understands that communities need support to rebuild and the opportunity to reimagine a healthier, more equitable future.

Heidi leads with heart, building trusted partnerships, facilitating meaningful conversations, and helping people turn concern into collective action. Her work connects practical preparedness with belonging, mutual care, and community leadership, grounded in the belief that our relationships are among our most important resources in difficult times.

At Resilient Peeps, Heidi is the Community Partnerships & Resilience Hubs Lead. She leads community outreach and partnership-building, helps develop Resilient Hubs in the places people already gather, and co-facilitates kid-friendly workshops and disaster psychology trainings.