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Appendix B: Committee and Speaker Biographies
Appendix B: Committee and Speaker Biographies
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His research draws on the broader theory of urban planning and hazard resiliency to propose best mitigation and adaptation strategies using quantitative and geospatial methodologies to identify the interactions between the built environment and natural hazards. Atoba's recent work addresses issues related to property acquisition and buyouts as non-structural mitigation strategies to reduce flood hazard impacts.
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is a visiting scientist at Harvard University T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the founder and president of the Billion Minds Institute, which brings science and policy to bear on tackling the "social climate" crisis of the climate crisis.
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She is a National Science Foundation Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship f ellow, a National Academies of Sciences Gulf Research Science Policy fellow, and a Harte Research Institute Furgason fellow. She also holds certification from the Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals and the National Disaster Preparedness Center.
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is the director of the Terrebonne Parish Consolidated Government Housing and Human Services Department. She has been instrumental in the implementation of various federally funded economic development, affordable housing, and public service projects in Terrebonne Parish that benefit underresourced communities.
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Her work with A2 advances community transformation by building grassroots coalitions in the communities most badly affected by climate change, including current work in Port A rthur, TX, helping community leaders to survey their residents to see what climate
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He taught English at Grand Caillou Middle in Houma, LA and then in Brooklyn, NY, before he joined the United States Peace Corps. He is a founding member of the Bayou Regional Arts Council serving Louisiana State Region 3 and is board Presi dent of the Helio Foundation, which recently sponsored the creation of the Houma Heights Cultural District in Terrebonne Parish.
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She is an associate professor of Emergency Management at Jacksonville State University where she conducts applied research into hazard policy and practice with a focus on increasing justice and equity in disaster recovery. Jerolleman is an expert in climate adaptation, hazard mitigation, and resilience with a long history of working in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors, including as lead grant writer and emergency planner for the FPCC and serving in a lead role with the Lowlander Center on coastal community resettlement.
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He has a B.S. at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, LA.
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Chief Parfait has had varied work experience ranging from developing media and GIS projects with the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences to conducting fieldwork on shoreline change in the Gulf Islands National Seashore with the National Park Service. He has also held several other leadership roles through the Native Youth Community Adaptation Leadership Congress and the Y Bold and Gold Advisory Council.
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is originally from Houma, LA and after some time away, he returned to his hometown where he began working for the National Wildlife Federation advocating for coastal restoration and non-structural flood protection. Pulaski was senior planner for Terrebonne Parish until he was appointed to planning director.
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is regents' professor and Harry West professor of city and regional planning and civil and environmental engineering and director of the Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her extensive regional resilience and sustainability research focuses on water resources, energy, transportation, economic development, and Mobility-as-a-Service.
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She works to ensure sound science and just decisionmaking is being utilized to plan, implement, and adaptively manage projects and policies, with a focus on system dynamics to meet the challenges of climate change to coastal and riverine ecosystems and communities. She previously worked at Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority, leading efforts on the Louisiana Coastal Master Plan and as the Science Director at the Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana.
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. VanLandingham directs Tulane's Center for Studies of Displaced Populations and leads research teams focusing on rural-to-urban migration within Southeast Asia; long-term post-disaster recovery; and acculturation, health, and well-being among Vietnamese immigrants living in New Orleans.
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Wilmore is a member of Foster Care Alumni of America and Fostering Change Network Alumni. In addition, she has been a keynote speaker for foster care, political, second ary and post-secondary education presentations.
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