Tiffany “Tiff” Cousins is a geographic information system and natural hazards researcher with academic and professional experience in geoscience (geophysics), geography, and urban planning (environmental hazard management). A native of New York City with West Indian heritage, Cousins is a planning, governance, and globalization PhD student at Virginia Tech. Her research is on using crowdsourced data for pluvial flood mapping and modeling. Her career vision is to explore the application of GIS in disaster resilience and risk management. Cousins’s experience includes teaching, grant application mapping, GIS web development, and spatial data science. In her “free” time, Cousins enjoys running, music and dancing, good food, traveling, and learning new ways to be creative. She is relearning to run with the hope of finally completing a half-marathon. While she loves 5Ks–hence why she is on the Bill Anderson Fund Disaster Dash committee–a half-marathon is that wild [something] that sounds challenging and fun.