Jennifer Tobin-Gurley
Jennifer Tobin-Gurley is a research assistant at the Center for Disaster and Risk Analysis and a third year Ph.D. student in the Department of Sociology at Colorado State University. She earned her B.A. in Sociology and Women’s Studies from CSU in 2005 and went on to complete a M.A. in Sociology in 2008. Her master’s thesis research drew on qualitative interviews with local disaster recovery workers and single mothers who were displaced to Colorado after Hurricane Katrina. Her research received first-place in both the 2011 Hazards and Disasters Student Paper Competition and the 2011 U.S. Gender and Disaster Resilience Alliance Paper Competition. Jennifer’s work has been published in the International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters, Children, Youth, and Environment, and Criminal Justice Studies. She recently co-authored the "Gender" chapter in the second edition of Social Vulnerability to Disasters. Jennifer is currently the Field Report Assistant Editor for Children, Youth, and Environments and is involved in a participatory project focusing on the recovery of youth following the Joplin Tornado and the Slave Lake Wildfires.