Aarone Sargent is a Communications and Digital Media Strategist. He has spent years in various leadership capacities developing strategic communications for government entities, non-profits, and local campaigns. Mr. Sargent has developed and cultivated many skills throughout his career. He is highly versatile, analytical in thinking, and enjoys creating solutions that tackle issues and gaps throughout his career path.

Mr. Sargent currently serves as the Acting Managing Director of the Disaster Reconstruction Authority. The Disaster Reconstruction Authority is a government agency established in the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian. Its mandate is to aid in the reconstruction efforts in the Grand Bahama and Abaco Disaster Zones. He is currently laying the groundwork for a new vision and structure on behalf of the Board of Directors. Before this role, Mr. Sargent served as Communications Manager at Hands for Hunger, a local Non-Profit Organization that focuses on cultivating solutions to end food insecurity in the Bahamas. Mr. Sargent also served as the Assistant General Manager for Public Relations & Information Technology at the Bahamas Agricultural & Industrial Corporation, a government agency geared towards facilitating ease of business in the agricultural, industrial, creative industries, and small business sectors.

Aarone enjoys being a part of developing solutions on national issues the Bahamas faces. He is also passionate about improving food insecurity issues; that is still prevalent amongst many Bahamians.

Mr. Sargent is an avid sportsman, having played amateur American football locally. He enjoys watching most sports, especially American football and Basketball.

Shavon Dean is the Data & IT Director at the Disaster Reconstruction Authority. Shavon was born in Nassau, New Providence and raised in Freeport, Grand Bahama. She received her Bachelor’s Degree in Information Systems with a concentration in Business Intelligence at the prestigious Abilene Christian University in Abilene TX. Her academic excellence in the field landed her an invitation to the International Honor Society for Computing and Information Disciplines, Upsilon Pi Epsilon.

After returning to the Bahamas, Shavon was motivated to use her business intelligence skills to offer meaningful data to encourage data-driven decisions in the companies she worked for, including Commonwealth Brewery, Freeport Container Port, and the Disaster Reconstruction Authority. She believes in lifelong learning and resonates with the saying “If you are the smartest person in the room, you are in the wrong room”. Her most recently set goal is to assist the Bahamas in automating current manual processes for operational efficiency.