June Gin
June Gin is Research Health Scientist at the Veterans Emergency Management Evaluation Center (VEMEC) at the Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System. Her interests include community resiliency and policies impacting socially vulnerable populations in disaster. She has served as community research and outreach manager at the Bay Area Preparedness Initiative (BayPrep), a joint initiative of the Fritz Institute and San Francisco Community Agencies Responding to Disasters (SF CARD). At BayPrep, she piloted an outreach program to increase the disaster preparedness of safety-net service providers serving vulnerable populations, including the homeless, elderly, special-needs populations, and people in poverty. She worked closely with non-profit service providers to facilitate their ability to achieve preparedness standards.
Gin received her Ph.D. in environmental sociology from the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan with a background in community organizing, non-profit organizations, neighborhood planning, and resilience. Her doctoral research focused on capacity-building in neighborhood organizations advocating around issues of land use, affordable housing, gentrification, and community health impacts. She conducted fieldwork in the San Francisco Bay Area involving ethnographic participant observation with 12 community organizations representing vulnerable populations in the Mission District and West Oakland. Gin has an M.A. in Public Policy from Claremont Graduate University, and a B.S. in Environmental Policy Analysis and Planning from UC Davis.
Workshop Abstracts
A Safety Net for Homeless Veterans: Disaster Preparedness in Homeless Housing Providers
With Angela Cohen and Diana Naranjo
Bringing Disaster Preparedness Home for Veterans: Assessing Needs, Addressing Gaps
With Tamar Wyte and Maria Claver
