Nicole Hutton is an assistant professor of geography at Old Dominion University. As a hazards researcher with a physical disability and a lower left arm prosthesis, Shriners Hospital for Children had a transformational impact on her early life. That relationship resonates in Hutton's research with nonprofits and vulnerable populations in post-disaster settings. She identifies the contributions of agency connections to organizational resilience. Her research on the 2010 earthquake sequence in Christchurch, New Zealand and levee breaks in Yuba County, California appears in The Professional Geographer, Third Sector Review, Papers in Applied Geography, Journal of Flood Risk Management and Emerging Voices in Hazards Research. Hutton’s current research tracks nursing compliance with emergency power legislation in Florida and identifies the role of traditional ecological knowledge in sea level rise adaptation with the Pamunkey Indian Tribe.