Resilient Infrastructure and Disaster Response (RIDER) Center is a multi-disciplinary research center established at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering. RIDER Center is founded with the mission of achieving adaptive capacity and resilience for the communities affected by natural disasters such as hurricanes and the COVID-19 pandemic. RIDER unites engineers, social scientists, social workers, health, public policy, communication and information specialists synergistically towards developing emergency plans that fit the distinct needs of both urban and rural communities to solve the real-world problem of “resilience divide.”