Sherri Brokopp Binder

Sherri Brokopp Binder is president of BrokoppBinder Research & Consulting, a research and evaluation consulting firm located in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Trained as a community psychologist, Binder’s work spans the academic, non-profit, and public sectors. Her research is focused on housing recovery and postdisaster relocation, with an emphasis on home buyout programs and housing recovery policy. Her recent work includes mixed-method studies of community and governmental response and recovery following Hurricane Harvey, Hurricane Sandy, the 2013 Moore, OK tornadoes, and the 2009 South Pacific tsunami. She received her bachelor's in international affairs from Kennesaw State University, her master's in sustainable international development from Brandeis University, her PhD in community and cultural psychology from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, and a graduate certificate in disaster management and humanitarian assistance from the National Disaster Preparedness Training Center at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Prior to pursuing her doctorate, Binder served as the sustainable cities division director at the Urban Ecology Institute, an environmental policy institute at Boston College.