DeeDee Bennett
DeeDee Bennett is pursuing her PhD at Oklahoma State University in Fire and Emergency Management. She received her B.S. in Electrical Engineering and M.S. in Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her interests include social vulnerabilities and communications as they relate to emergency management practice and policy.
Before becoming a full-time student, Bennett held a research engineering position at Georgia Tech for several years. Since then, she has worked with the Georgia Emergency Management Agency and The Wireless Rehabilitation and Engineering Research Center on issues surrounding emergency management and people with disabilities. Bennett is currently teaching an introduction to Emergency Management course to undergraduates at Oklahoma State University. She has authored articles and presented papers in several places such as the International Journal of Emergency Management, Introduction to Emergency Management textbook, and the Wireless Emergency Communications State of Technology Conference. She is a member of IAEM.
