Rajee Tamrakar

Rajee Tamrakar is a PhD student at the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences at Stony Brook University. She holds a Master of Science in geography and environmental resources from Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Originally from Nepal, Tamrakar's firsthand experiences with natural hazards like floods and earthquakes fueled her passion for equitable disaster risk reduction and strengthened her commitment to community-centered disaster recovery. Her current research interests focus on how disaster-induced mobility decisions are shaped by different dimensions, including governance structures, institutional capacity, financial systems, and socioeconomic constraints. Currently, she serves as Chair of Community Engagement for the National Science Foundation Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure Graduate Student Council.