Jeremy Stone

Jeremy Stone has over a decade of experience in economic recoveries following disasters and more than 17 years of community economic development experience. He has worked on various economic recoveries including Hurricane Katrina, 9/11, the BP Oil Spill, Hurricane Harvey, the Marathassa Oil Spill, and the 2013 Colorado Floods. Stone is founder of Recovery and Relief Services, a niche consultancy providing economic resilience and disaster recovery planning services, and currently serves as the director of community economic development programs at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, where he is developing a community economic resilience practice. Stone has worked with numerous governments and organizations on issues of social and economic justice, and teaches a variety of courses at several universities on social justice, sustainable development, and disaster resilience.

Stone managed a $20MM grant and loan program that primarily targeted commercial fishermen following Hurricane Katrina, and has worked extensively on rural economic development initiatives with First Nations on the British Columbia coast. Stone has also served internationally as a Peace Corps volunteer in Mongolia, and with the United Nations Development Programme on microfinance initiatives.

Stone received his master’s in international economic development from New York University, and his bachelor’s in anthropology from Reed College, where he studied the effect of ‘cargo cults’ on economic development in the South Pacific. He is currently completing a PhD in community and regional planning at the University of British Columbia where his research focuses on recovery justice and disaster-induced gentrification in New Orleans.