Appendix B
Agenda
Committee on Applied Research Topics for Hazard Mitigation and Resilience Workshop 1: Social Capital and Social Connectedness for Resilience Thursday, February 25, 2021
11:00AM – 11:30AM (all times EST) | Welcome: Charles Branas, Chair, Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University |
Keynote: Jacqueline Patterson, Director, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Environmental and Climate Justice Program | |
11:30AM – 12:30PM | Panel 1: Building Resilient Communities from Research |
Speaker 1: Dr. Jennifer Denno Cissé, Associate Academic Officer, United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security | |
Speaker 2: Dr. Alonzo Plough, Vice President, Research-Evaluation-Learning and Chief Science Officer, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation | |
Speaker 3: Dr. Michelle Meyer, Director, Hazard Reduction & Recovery Center, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, Texas A&M University | |
Speaker 4: Dr. Daniel Aldrich, Director, Security and Resilience Studies Program, and Professor, Political Science and Public Policy, Northeastern University | |
Moderator: Charles Branas, Chair, Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University |
12:45PM – 1:45PM | Panel 2: Local Community and Government Experiences |
Speaker 1: Leslie Wright, Founder, Collective Clarity | |
Speaker 2: Nick Crossley, Director, Hamilton County, Ohio, Emergency Management and Homeland Security Agency | |
Speaker 3: Ron Peters, Owner, Peters Body Shop | |
Speaker 4: Brigid Shea, Precinct Two Commissioner, Travis County, Texas | |
Moderator: Linda Langston, President, Langston Strategies Group | |
2:00PM – 3:15PM | Panel 3: Using Social Networks to Build Capacity for Resilience |
Speaker 1: Dr. Jamie Aten, Blanchard Chair of Humanitarian Disaster Leadership, Wheaton College | |
Speaker 2: Greta McLain, Owner and Artistic Director, GoodSpace Murals | |
Speaker 3: Trace Pickering, Executive Director, Iowa BIG | |
Speaker 4: Hannah Vick, Senior Policy Advisor, Federal Emergency Management Agency | |
Speaker 5: Gabriele Almon, Founder | Story & Narrative Strategy, Brain & Bullish | |
Moderator: Monica Sanders, Associate Professor, University of Delaware; Adjunct Lecturer, Georgetown University | |
3:30PM – 4:15PM | Panel 4: Public and Private Partnerships for Resilience |
Speaker 1: Dr. Nidia Martínez, Director Climate Risk Analytics, Willis Towers Watson | |
Speaker 2: Mackenzie Huffman, Vice President, Sustainability, JPMorgan Chase & Co. | |
Speaker 3: Erin Coryell, Program Officer, Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies | |
Moderator: Mark Abkowitz, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Vanderbilt University | |
4:30PM – 5:00PM | Recap and Closing Charles Branas, Chair, Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University |