Alessandra Jerolleman

Alessandra Jerolleman is the director of research for the Center on Environment, Land, and Law at the Loyola University New Orleans College of Law. She served as an associate professor and director of the Emergency Management Doctoral Program at Jacksonville State University. Jerolleman supports the U.S. Geological Survey’s National Climate Adaptation Science Center as a climate justice lead. She is a community resilience specialist and applied researcher at the Lowlander Center, with expertise in disaster recovery, risk reduction, and hazard policy. She has published several books and articles, including Disaster Recovery through the Lens of Justice, The Relationship between Persons and Property: Implications for Climate Change and Resettlement, and Justice, Equity, and Emergency Management. Jerolleman founded the Natural Hazard Mitigation Association and served as its executive director. She is a subject matter expert in climate adaptation, hazard mitigation, disaster recovery, and resilience, with a long history of working with the public, private, and nonprofit sectors and tribal nations. She is involved in various aspects of planning and policy at the national and local levels. Jerolleman speaks on just recovery, climate justice, land use and resettlement, hazard mitigation, climate change, hazard mitigation planning, protecting children in disasters, and public/private partnerships.