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