Speakers and Presenters
Click on the names below to learn more about the our 2018 Natural Hazards Workshop Speakers and Presenters.
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Leslie Abrahams, Institute for Defense Analyses
David Abramson, New York University
Charlotte Acton, Risk Management Solutions
Supriya Akerkar, Oxford Brookes University
David Alamia, Harris County Homeland Security and Emergency Management
Bob Alexander, Rural Livelihood Risk Management Consulting
Bill Anderson, Transportation Research Board at the National Academies
David Applegate, U.S. Geological Survey
Stacey Arnesen, National Library of Medicine
Lauren Alexander Augustine, The National Academies
Jill Barnes, Los Angeles Unified School District
Rebecca Beavers, National Park Service
Nancy Beers, Center for Disaster Philanthropy
Matthew Behnke, Federal Emergency Management Agency
Jesse Bell, University of Nebraska Medical Center
Doug Bellomo, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
DeeDee Bennett Gayle, State University of New York at Albany
Ellen Berggren, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Phil Berke, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Virginia Berndt, University of Delaware
Lisa Blake, New York City Emergency Management
Sara Bondesson, Swedish Defence University
Lisa Branum, U.S. Department of the Interior
Hannah Brenkert-Smith, University of Colorado Boulder
Jeff Brislawn, Wood Environment & Infrastructure Solutions, Inc.
Sherri Brokopp Binder, BrokoppBinder Research & Consulting
Shannon Burke, American Planning Association
Eric Carbone, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Arrietta Chakos, Urban Resilience Strategies
Christopher Clavin, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Leremy Colf, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- Better Outcomes: Strategies to Improve Health and Well-Being
- Interactive Listening Session – Better Results: Data and Partnership Needs to Improve Disaster Response
Ryan Colker, National Institute of Building Sciences
Santina Contreras, University of Southern California
Tim Cook, Washington State Emergency Management
Stephen Costello, City of Houston
Elena Craft, Environmental Defense Fund
Susan Cutter, University of South Carolina
Natasha DeJarnett, American Public Health Association
Sarah DeYoung, University of Delaware
Alexa Dietrich, Social Science Research Council
Maria Dillard, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Robin Dillon-Merrill, Georgetown University
Aram Dobalian, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Simone Domingue, University of Oklahoma
Colleen Durfee, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Christopher Dyer, University of New Mexico—Gallup
David Eisenman, University of California, Los Angeles
Christopher Emrich, University of Central Florida
Erica Fischer, Oregon State University
Edward Gabriel, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
JC Gaillard, The University of Auckland
Lynn Garst, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
Mike Gavin, International Association of Emergency Managers
Brandi Gilbert, Community Science
June Gin, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Jonathan Godt, U.S. Geological Survey
Barb Graff, Seattle Office of Emergency Management
Sara Hamideh, Stony Brook University
- Partnering with Practitioners Roundtable
- Equitable and Resilient Design: Past and Present Infrastructure Challenges
Edward Hecker, Hecker Consulting LLC
Marccus Hendricks, University of Maryland, College Park
Andrew Herseth, Federal Emergency Management Agency
Derrick Hiebert, Federal Emergency Management Agency
Mike Hobbins, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
David Hondula, Arizona State University
William Hooke, American Meteorological Society
Suzanne Horsley, The University of Alabama
Paul Huang, Federal Emergency Management Agency
Kenneth Hudnut, U.S. Geological Survey
Thomas Hughes, Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency
Iain Hyde, Colorado Resiliency Office
Sascha Ishikawa, RAND Corporation
Lisa Marie Jackson, Emergency Management Victoria
Pamela Jenkins, University of New Orleans
Lynn Jennings, Legal Services Corporation
Alessandra Jerolleman, Jacksonville State University
- Partnering with Practitioners Roundtable
- Focusing Events: Leveraging Resources for Preparedness and Mitigation in At-Risk Communities
Laurie Johnson, Laurie Johnson Consulting
Katherine Johnson, National Institute of Standards and Technology
David Johnston, Massey University
Ilan Kelman, University College London
Tracy Kijewski-Correa, University of Notre Dame
Kevin King, Mennonite Disaster Service
Richard Krajeski, Lowlander Center
Tony Krause, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Jamie Kruse, East Carolina University
Howard Kunreuther, University of Pennsylvania
Larry Larson, Association of State Floodplain Managers
Shirley Laska, Lowlander Center
Jennifer Lazo, City of Los Angeles
Mary Leinhos, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Lauren Leuck, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Sophia Liu, U.S. Geological Survey
- Social Media and Disasters Roundtable
- Disaster Citizen Science: Supporting Disaster Response and Research
Hans Louis-Charles, Virginia Commonwealth University
Kristin Ludwig, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
Penny Luehring, U.S. Forest Service
Ward Lyles, University of Kansas
Karen MacClune, ISET-International
Janiele Maffei, California Earthquake Authority
Hussam Mahmoud, Colorado State University
Michael Mahoney, Federal Emergency Management Agency
Rejina Manandhar, Arkansas Tech University
Brian Mayer, University of Arizona
Steven McCabe, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Samantha Medlock, Federal Emergency Management Agency
Scott Miles, Impact360 Alliance
- Moonshots: Ideas to Change the World of Hazards and Disasters
- Earthquake Reconnaissance: New Approaches, New Findings
Cheryl Miller, Diablo Fire Safe Council
Aubrey Miller, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Judith Mitrani-Reiser, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Galen Newman, Texas A&M University
Mai Nguyen, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Skye Niles, Natural Hazards Center
Terri Norton, Bucknell University
Oluponmile Olonilua, Texas Southern University
Robert Olshansky, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Richard Olson, Florida International University
Laura Olson, Jacksonville State University
Maggie Ortiz-Millan, Earthquake Engineering Research Institute
Robert O’Connor, National Science Foundation
Brittney Parker, Federal Emergency Management Agency
Sneha Patel, Columbia University
Courtney Patterson, Portland Bureau of Emergency Management
Jacqueline Patterson, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Russ Paulsen, Paulsen and Associates
Walter Peacock, Texas A&M University
Ines Pearce, Pearce Global Partners
Alice Pennaz, U.S. Geological Survey
Sally Phillips, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
John Plodinec, Community and Regional Resilience Institute
Keith Porter, Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction
- How Can We Partner for Change? A Discussion of the HayWired Scenario
- Mitigation Saves: Next Steps in Policy and Investment
Roger Pulwarty, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Adam Rose, University of Southern California
Jenniffer Santos-Hernández, University of Puerto Rico Río Piedras
Alka Sapat, Florida Atlantic University
Siamak Sattar, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Josh Sawislak, Center for Climate and Energy Solutions
Cindy Schmidt, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Susan Schmitz, Veterans Emergency Management Evaluation Center
Philip Schneider, National Institute of Building Sciences
Ted Serrant, Houston Independent School District
Nick Shufro, Federal Emergency Management Agency
- Walking the Talk: Risk Communication to Inspire Action
- Mitigation Saves: Next Steps in Policy and Investment
Ben Smilowitz, Disaster Accountability Project
Gavin Smith, North Carolina State University
- Focusing Events: Leveraging Resources for Preparedness and Mitigation in At-Risk Communities
- Resilient Design Education: Current Status and Future Directions
Adam Smith, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Erika Spanger-Siegfried, Union of Concerned Scientists
Jeremy Stone, Simon Fraser University
Lisa Grow Sun, Brigham Young University
Jeannette Sutton, State University of New York at Albany
Cindy Swearingen, Mason Public Schools
Eric Tate, Princeton University
Shigeo Tatsuki, Doshisha University
Justin Theal, The Pew Charitable Trusts
Edward Thomas, National Hazard Mitigation Association
- Disaster Accountability: Unraveling the Nature of Catastrophe
- Mitigation Saves: Next Steps in Policy and Investment
Forbes Tompkins, The Pew Charitable Trusts
Joseph Trainor, University of Delaware
Bethany Van Brown, Sacred Heart University
Shannon Van Zandt, Texas A&M University
Brian Varrella, Colorado Department of Transportation
Suzanne Vermeer, Federal Emergency Management Agency
Kanmani Vetekateswaran, ISET-International
Jamie Vickery, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Melissa Villarreal, Natural Hazards Center
Tricia Wachtendorf, University of Delaware
David Wald, U.S. Geological Survey
Wendy Walsh, Federal Emergency Management Agency
William Waugh, Georgia State University
Elizabeth Weight, National Integrated Drought Information System
Anne Wein, U.S. Geological Survey
- How Can We Partner for Change? A Discussion of the HayWired Scenario
- Earthquake Reconnaissance: New Approaches, New Findings
Christopher White, Anchor Point Group
John Wiener, University of Colorado Boulder
Kelsey Wittels, Thornton Tomasetti
Laura Wolf, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services