Simone Domingue

Simone Domingue is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Geography and Environmental Sustainability at the University of Oklahoma. Domingue completed a PhD in sociology from the University of Colorado Boulder and holds a master’s degree in environmental sciences from Louisiana State University. Domingue critically studies disaster-related programs, policies, and planning initiatives to advance socially-just solutions to climate change. Her dissertation critically examined Louisiana’s historic and current response to coastal land loss and climate change through the lens of environmental justice. She is currently working with a team of researchers to analyze and improve community capacity for equitable climate change adaptation planning in small communities across the Gulf Coast. Her research has been published in Environmental Sociology, the American Review of Public Administration, and The International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters. In addition, her work on FEMA’s Public Assistance program has been cited by the agency’s National Advisory Council in a report on disaster disparities and in the New York Times.