Bailey deRouen

Bailey deRouen is an Assistant Vice President and serves as the Grants and Program Management Market Lead with Tidal Basin. With over ten years of experience in community development and disaster management, Bailey has served state and local governments in developing and implementing community development, disaster recovery, and mitigation programs that focus on resiliency. Through her work, she delivers sustainable, compliant, and resilient housing, buyout, economic revitalization, public services, infrastructure, and planning programs that prioritize low- and moderate-income households. With a deep and practical understanding of CDBG-DR regulations and years of experience implementing programs with colleagues and at various levels of public engagement, Bailey has compiled a comprehensive inventory of best practices and applied solutions for performing outreach and engagement, as well as for designing, establishing, and managing a program through disaster recovery to closeout.  

Through her direct experience incorporating other federal funding sources into state and local recovery and mitigation efforts, as well as through her ability to effectively collaborate and find common ground with other federal partners and various levels of governance, Bailey helps states and local governments leverage their internal and cross-agency efforts, as well as other private and federal funding sources, such as disaster and mitigation funding from FEMA, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Small Business Administration, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and Economic Development Administration. 

Bailey has a master’s degree in urban planning with a focus on mitigation from the University of New Orleans. She is a certified planner with a JD focused on environmental law from Loyola College of Law, New Orleans.