Yvonne Dadson

Yvonne Appiah Dadson is a doctoral candidate in Information Sciences at the University at Albany, State University of New York, focusing on disaster risk management and social equity research. As a graduate research assistant at the Extreme Events, Social Equity, and Technology Laboratory and a member of the Human Systems Dynamics Team of the Megalopolitan Coastal Transformation Hub project, Dadson investigates Immigrant vulnerability and resilience in disaster contexts. Her research contributions have been widely recognized in the disaster science community. She has won several accolades for her work. In 2025, she won the Empowering Community Resilience and Green, Social, and Sustainability Research and Innovation Travel Awards and received the Mid-Atlantic Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster Conference Scholarship. A 2024 Bill Anderson Fund Fellow, Dadson actively contributes to her field as a journal reviewer and community volunteer. In the long run, she would like to be a policymaker and a leading scholar in her field, mentor the next generation of emergency management professionals, and continue her research on equitable disaster resilience.