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Appendix A: Committee Biographies
Appendix A: Committee Biographies
Pages 115-120
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She most recently served as project director of the Harvard Kennedy School's Acting in Time Disaster Recovery Research Project and previously served as assistant city manager in Berkeley, California, directing intergovernmental coordination and innovative hazard mitigation initiatives. She works on disaster risk reduction public policy and sustainable community engagement.
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Publications include papers on disaster issues for numerous technical conferences on disaster risk reduction; for the American Society of Civil Engineers; for Spectra, a professional publication; and for the Natural Hazards' Observer. She contributed a chapter to OECD's book, Keeping Schools Safe in Earthquake Country and to Global Warming, Natural Hazards, and Emergency Management (2008)
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He is cofounder and Executive Editor Emeritus of the electronic Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management. He is the immediate past president of The International Emergency Management Society and former associate director of the National Ports and Waterways Institute.
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Dr. Lesnick facilitated the White House Hurricane Katrina Stakeholder Summit as well as interagency and stakeholder processes in the development of the National Infrastructure Protection Plan and the National Response Framework.
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Rowel recently completed a project that examined knowledge, perceptions, and natural disaster experiences of low-income African American and Spanish-speaking Latino populations. This initiative led to publishing a "Guide to Enhance Grassroots Risk Communication Among Low-Income Populations" which provides practical, step-by-step instructions on how to work with grassroots organizations in order to deliver critical information to low-income populations before, during, and after a disaster.
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Mr. Woodworth's domestic response efforts include the 1992 Civil Unrest in Los Angeles followed by the 1994 Northridge Earthquake, Oklahoma City Bombing, 9/11 World Trade Center attacks, Hurricane Katrina, and multiple flooding, wind, fire, and seismic events.
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