Speakers and Presenters

Click on the names below to learn more about the our 2023 Natural Hazards Workshop Speakers and Presenters.

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Norma Anderson, The Bill Anderson Fund

Ronald Anderson, National Institute of Building Sciences

David Applegate, U.S. Geological Survey

Nahuel Arenas, United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction

Katie Arrington, Boulder County, Colorado

William Arwood, Federal Emergency Management Agency

Lauren Alexander Augustine, The National Academies

Yajaira Ayala, University of Delaware

Karen Bailey, University of Colorado Boulder

Daniel Bass, Federal Emergency Management Agency

Chad Berginnis, Association of State Floodplain Managers

Francis Bouchard, Marsh McLennan

Cynthia Braddock, Boulder County, Colorado

Kyle Breen, Dalhousie University

Curtis Brown, Virginia Commonwealth University

Katherine Browne, Colorado State University

Jenny Burmester, Federal Emergency Management Agency

Michael Byrne, Deloitte

Nnenia Campbell, Natural Hazards Center

Jennifer Carpenter, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

Mary Ellen Carroll, City of San Francisco

Stephen Carruth, Federal Emergency Management Agency

Divya Chandrasekhar, University of Utah

Lauren Clay, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Tim Cockerill, University of Texas at Austin

Natalie Coleman, Texas A&M University

Louise Comfort, University of Pittsburgh

Santina Contreras, University of Southern California

John Cooper, Texas A&M University

Michael Craig, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

H. Camille Crain, Federal Emergency Management Agency

Shane Crawford, Federal Emergency Management Agency

Susan Cutter, University of South Carolina

Christine da Rosa, Trauma Informed Oregon

Lindsay Davis, U.S. Geological Survey

Stephen Decatur, City and County of Denver

Scott Dehnisch, U.S. Agency for International Development

Lauren Dent, U.S. Geological Survey

Maria Dillard, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Benika Dixon, Texas A&M University

Adrienne Dodd, University of California, Berkeley

Shangjia Dong, University of Delaware

Oronde Drakes, U.S. Geological Survey

Sean Dugdale, Federal Emergency Management Agency

James Elliott, Rice University

Christopher Emrich, University of Central Florida

Alina Engelman, California State University, East Bay

Gina Eosco, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Nicole Errett, University of Washington

Maria Esteva, University of Texas at Austin

Shirley Feldmann-Jensen, California State University, Long Beach

Natasha Fox, Oregon State University

Suzanne Frew, The Frew Group

Ivis García, Texas A&M University

Robert Gasior, The National Academies

Christine Gibb, University of Ottawa

June Gin, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

Angela Gladwell, Federal Emergency Management Agency

Carolina Gomez, Home Forward

Natalie Grant, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Daniel Green, Federal Emergency Management Agency

Alex Greer, State University of New York at Albany

Laura Hall, Regional Disaster Preparedness Organization

Sara Hamideh, Stony Brook University

Marguerite Harden, Colorado Department of Local Affairs

Emily Harville, Tulane University

Dana Hellman, CAPA Strategies

Patty Hernandez, Headwaters Economics

Derrick Hiebert, Federal Emergency Management Agency

Susanna Hoffman, International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences

Emily Hogan, City of Louisville

Gabor Holtzer, University of Notre Dame

Courtney Hoover, U.S. Department of the Interior

Jennifer Horney, University of Delaware

Patrick Howell, Institute for Building Technology and Safety

Emma Hudson-Doyle, Massey University

Thomas Hughes, Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency

Lorna Jaramillo-Nieves, University of Puerto Rico Río Piedras

Cassandra Jean, University of Washington

Alessandra Jerolleman, Jacksonville State University

Katherine Johnson, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Kate Judson, Federal Emergency Management Agency

Shefali Juneja Lakhina, Wonder Labs

Amber Khan, University of Washington

Brittany Kiessling, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Karl Kim, University of Hawaii at Manoa

Kristina Kintziger, University of Nebraska Medical Center

Michael Kolian, U.S. Department of Energy

Tamiyo Kondo, Kobe University

Bryan Koon, IEM International, Inc.

Paul Kovacs, Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction

Jamie Kruse, East Carolina University

Betty Lai, Boston College

Nicolas LaLone, Rochester Institute of Technology

Laura Landau, Rutgers University

Romeo Lavarias, City of Miramar Fire-Rescue Department

Mary Leinhos, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Judanne Lennox-Morrison, Texas A&M University

Eric Letvin, Federal Emergency Management Agency

Barry Levitt, Florida International University

Maggie León-Corwin, University of Oklahoma

Dongying Li, Texas A&M University

Yolanda Lin, University of New Mexico

Mark Lindberg, Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies

William Lloyd, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

Keri Lubell, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Kristin Ludwig, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

Maggie Luna, Texas Center for Justice and Equity

Hussam Mahmoud, Colorado State University

Julie Maldonado, Livelihoods Knowledge Exchange Network

Matthew Marchetti, CrowdSource Rescue

Elizabeth Marino, Oregon State University-Cascades

Atyia Martin, Next Leadership Development

Carlos Martín, Harvard University

Julia Masters, State of Colorado

Jasmine McAdams, University of California, Berkeley

Sara McBride, U.S. Geological Survey

Joshua McDuffie, Vanderbilt University

Jacqueline Meszaros, National Science Foundation

Michelle Meyer, Texas A&M University

Anne Miller, Colorado Department of Local Affairs

Aubrey Miller, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

TyKeara Mims, Texas A&M University

Dominick Mireles, City of Philadelphia

Judith Mitrani-Reiser, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Cristy Morales Muñoz, United Way of the Columbia-Willamette

Matthew Mueller, Denver Office of Emergency Management

Laura Myers, The University of Alabama

Jean-Claude Ndongo, Florida Atlantic University

Michael Paul Nelson, Oregon State University

Daniel Nietfeld, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Laura Olson, Jacksonville State University

Yuichi Ono, Tohoku University

Robert O’Connor, National Science Foundation

Risa Palm, Georgia State University

Jonna Papaefthimiou, State of Oregon

Carol Parks, City of Los Angeles

Lori Peek, Natural Hazards Center

Kristina Peterson, Lowlander Center

Lisa Platt, University of Florida

Tara Powell, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

David Prevatt, University of Florida

Katie Pugh, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Carlee Purdum, University of Houston

Julio Ramirez, Purdue University

Jagruti Rekhi, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

Kesley Richardson, Loyola University

Fernando Rivera, University of Central Florida

Danielle Rivera, University of California, Berkeley

Jason Rivera, City University of New York

Patrick Roberts, RAND Corporation

Richard Robertson, University of the West Indies

Shalynn Robinette, Home Forward

Shelby Ross, University of Colorado Boulder

Diana Rothe-Smith, IEM International, Inc.

Elizabeth Rudd, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

Andrew Rumbach, Urban Institute

Heather Schulte, Heather Schulte Studio

Andrea Schumacher, National Center for Atmospheric Research

Nick Shufro, Federal Emergency Management Agency

Marci Marie Simmons, Lioness: Justice Impacted Women’s Alliance

Gavin Smith, North Carolina State University

Andrea Snyder, The Pew Charitable Trusts

Robin Soler, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Steve Staeger, 9News Denver

Russ Strickland, Maryland Department of Emergency Management

Elaina Sutley, University of Kansas

Jeannette Sutton, State University of New York at Albany

Salvesila Tamima, University of Delaware

Shigeo Tatsuki, Doshisha University

Kristin Taylor, Wayne State University

Kathleen Tierney, University of Colorado Boulder

Jennifer Toon, Lioness: Justice Impacted Women’s Alliance

Kaoru Toyofuku, Japan Science and Technology Agency

Joseph Trainor, University of Delaware

Joseph Trujillo-Falcón, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Alicia Tyson, Colorado State University

Erin Urquhart, National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Matthew Van, University of Delaware

Jamie Vickery, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Melissa Villarreal, Natural Hazards Center

Lauren Vinnell, Massey University

Tricia Wachtendorf, University of Delaware

Anne Wein, U.S. Geological Survey

Catherine Welker, Federal Emergency Management Agency

Jocelyn West, Natural Hazards Center

Chandler Wilkins, Texas A&M University

Pamela Williams, Federal Emergency Management Agency

Jay Wilson, Clackamas County Disaster Management

Wade Witmer, Federal Emergency Management Agency

Michele Wood, California State University, Fullerton

H. Tristan Wu, University of North Texas

Haorui Wu, Dalhousie University

Matthew Wynia, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

Elissa Yeates, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Siyu Yu, Texas A&M University

Jiqiu "JQ" Yuan, National Institute of Building Sciences

Xilei Zhao, University of Florida

Sally Ziolkowski, Federal Emergency Management Agency

Casey Zuzak, Federal Emergency Management Agency