Blythe Johnston is a PhD candidate at Colorado State University who works within the National Institute of Standards and Technology Center for Risk-Based Community Resilience Planning, and a graduate intern with AT&T. Johnston acquired her bachelor’s degree in civil engineering at the University of Alabama then taught elementary school in Las Vegas, Nevada before returning to academia to pursue her PhD in civil engineering. In her research, she studies community resilience and long-term recovery to natural hazards through field study data collection, interdisciplinary data integration, and agent-based modeling techniques. In her work with AT&T, she engages with a variety of communities to create actionable knowledge in hazard mitigation and climate action plans using data from the Climate Risk and Resilience Portal.