The Natural Hazards Center and Gender and Disaster Network have named Cecilia Castro Garcia as the 2008 Mary Fran Myers Award winner.
The Mary Fran Myers Award was established in 2002 to recognize disaster professionals who continue Myers’ goal of promoting research on gender issues, disasters, emergency management, and higher education.
Castro García is an independent researcher and consultant who has dedicated her work to enabling practices to mainstream approaches of gender equity and integrate disaster risk management in community activities, government programs, urban and social development policies, and institutes advancing women’s issues. She has worked on the theories of comprehensive disaster risk management and environmental management as part of a more just and sustainable approach to development. She holds a bachelor’s in human settlement design (urban and regional planning) and is a specialist in gender studies and has doctoral studies in social sciences.
See Castro Garcia’s full bio on the Natural Hazards website.