The Natural Hazards Center invites students to apply to volunteer at the Natural Hazards Workshop. These students attend sessions and provide support to panelists and moderators throughout the event. The volunteers who were selected to assist at this year’s Workshop are listed below. Participants are welcome to reach out to them for assistance while at the Workshop, and we gratefully acknowledge their service to the community.
Musabber Ali Chisty is a Ph.D. student and graduate teaching assistant in the Department of Sociology at the University of Colorado Boulder. Musabber is also a graduate research affiliate at the Natural Hazards Center. In his native Bangladesh, Musabber is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Disaster Management and Vulnerability Studies, University of Dhaka. Before this, he was a Lecturer at the Department of Disaster Management and Resilience at the Bangladesh University of Professionals in Dhaka.
His main research interests include vulnerability assessment, flood risk management, community-based disaster management, disaster risk reduction and resilience, disaster and development nexus, disaster governance, etc. Musabber has published in these areas in outlets such as the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (IJDRR), Disaster Prevention and Management (DPM), Health Science Report, Plos One, Sustainability, and Water, among others. He has received several research grants from the Bangladesh University Grants Commission and the University of Dhaka. He also has extensive experience working with different government agencies, international non-governmental organizations, and national non-governmental organizations as a consultant.
Brigid Mark is a PhD student in the sociology department at the University of Colorado Boulder and a graduate research assistant at the Natural Hazards Center. Her research interests include climate/environmental justice, social movements, and race—specifically colonization, decolonization, and Native sovereignty. Her research methodology includes scholar activism and Indigenous feminist qualitative methods. Mark holds a master's in sociology from the University of Colorado Boulder with a certificate in environmental sociology and a bachelor’s in environmental studies and biology from the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University.
Mark's current research explores how Indigenous-led social movements work to counter processes of land dispossession and injustice through rematriation. Mark's master's thesis explores how social movements address power inequalities, focusing on the Indigenous-white line of difference in the movement against the Line 3 pipeline in northern Minnesota. She has conducted research at two United Nations climate conferences on emotions of youth climate activists, exclusion and marginalization within the conference, and Pacific Islanders’ strategies to advance rapid climate action. She has collaborated on climate justice research about Native-led renewable energy and the power of the fossil fuel industry.