Natasha Fox

Oregon State University

Natasha Fox is a postdoctoral scholar at Oregon State University College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, working with the Cascadia Coastlines and Peoples Research Hazards Hub. Her work centers on developing community-inclusive approaches to coastal hazard resilience from perspectives of equity-seeking and marginalized groups. For her PhD fieldwork in 2018, she spent one year in Tohoku, Japan, working with queer and trans communities recovering from the 2011 disasters, identifying how blind spots in conventional top-down approaches to disaster planning contribute to disadvantages for underserved communities' recovery. Her current research carries forward findings from her PhD to investigate how Oregon coastal LGBTQ2S+ communities' social networks, community assets, and resilience pathways can inform equitable disaster planning and adaptation processes to align with everyday community needs and how these findings can be scaled up and operationalized across other intersectionally marginalized communities.