About Okla Risk Advisors

What the firm does

Six practice lines run under one accountable roof: disaster damage assessment, hazard mitigation and resilience planning, disaster recovery and FEMA Public Assistance, government contracting, subcontracting and professional services staffing, claims services, and expert witness and appraisal work, all contracted through Choctaw Strategies, LLC. They connect. A mitigation plan determines what funding a nation can reach after the next declaration. A Public Assistance recovery has to be reconciled against the insurance settlement on the same buildings. An insurance dispute over those buildings can end up in appraisal or in a deposition. Most firms cover one of those and refer the rest out.

Our standard

The firm was founded on a plain conviction: professional work deserves experienced people, not assembly line handling. Engagements are shaped around the client's situation rather than forced into a template, and the person who scopes the work is the person who owns it.

The firm is a consultancy, not an advocacy shop. Its value is independent analysis, and that shows up as defensible documentation, candid counsel, and conclusions that hold under audit, appraisal, or examination no matter who retained it.

The founder

Okla Risk Advisors began with a discovery. During the pandemic, at his father's funeral, founder Chris Chambers learned of his Choctaw ancestry. What followed was deliberate: enrollment as a citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, a Master of Legal Studies in Indigenous Peoples Law from the University of Oklahoma, and a firm built to serve Indian Country with the same discipline he had spent 25 years applying in the field, assessing damage after the largest catastrophes in the country.

That combination is uncommon. Most disaster recovery consultants have never adjusted an insurance claim. Most catastrophe adjusters have never written a project worksheet or a mitigation plan, and have never worked inside the sovereignty questions that shape everything in Indian Country. Chris built the firm at exactly that intersection: a catastrophe damage assessor who led slab teams after Hurricane Katrina, worked commercial property losses valued up to $85 million, and has since completed 45 FEMA Independent Study courses in mitigation planning, Public Assistance and damage assessment, now applying that judgment to help tribal nations, governments, and organizations plan for and recover from disaster. Read Chris Chambers’ full profile.

Reach Chris directly: (913) 333-1816 · chrischambers@oklariskadvisors.com

Delivery capacity

The firm deploys through an established network of licensed adjusters, inspectors, and disaster recovery specialists, scaled to each engagement, from a single expert assignment to multi-inspector catastrophe deployments. Quality control runs through the firm's senior leadership on every deployment.

The name

In the Choctaw language, okla means people. The word carries a deeper sense than a head count. When Choctaw delegate Rev. Allen Wright proposed the name Oklahumma for the Indian Territory in 1866, he drew on that word: okla (people) and humma (red). According to the Choctaw Nation, homma was also a war title given to those who did not retreat, making Oklahoma not just "red people" but "people who do not retreat." It became the name of the territory and, in 1907, the 46th state.

Okla Risk Advisors takes the first half of that word deliberately. The firm exists for the people it serves, grounded in Choctaw heritage and in the disaster recovery work that puts communities back together.

Native American owned

Choctaw Strategies, LLC is wholly owned by an enrolled citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma and qualifies as an Indian Economic Enterprise eligible under the Buy Indian Act, with an SBA 8(a) application in process. The firm keeps an office in Wister, Oklahoma, inside the Choctaw Nation reservation, and pursues federal, state, and tribal work where that standing and its technical capability align. See tribal disaster recovery, FEMA Public Assistance consulting, and government contracting.