Friday Fellow Feature: Ruby Hernandez
Our Featured Fellow for September 2025 is Ruby Hernandez, a third-year environmental health doctoral student in the School of Public Health at Texas A&M University (TAMU).
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Friday Fellow Feature: Zaira Pagán-Cajigas
Our Featured Fellow for June 2025 is Zaira Pagán-Cajigas. Zaira recently obtained her Ph.D. in Industrial and Operations Engineering (IOE) from the University of Michigan, where she also completed her master’s degree.
Friday Fellow Feature: Mason Alexander-Hawk
Our Featured Fellow for May 2025 is Mason Alexander-Hawk, a research assistant for the Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center and doctoral student in the Urban Regional Sciences Program at Texas A&M University.
Friday Fellow Feature: Jacquita N. Johnson
Our Featured Fellow for April 2025 is Jacquita N. Johnson, a third-year graduate student pursuing a DrPH in Environmental Health and Certificate in Women’s and Gender Studies at Texas A&M University (TAMU).
Friday Fellow Feature: Amidu Kalokoh
Our Featured Fellow for December 2024 is Amidu Kalokoh. Amidu is a fourth-year Public Policy and Administration doctoral candidate at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU).
Friday Fellow Feature: Diamond Joelle Cunningham, MPH
Our Featured Fellow for November 2024 is Diamond Joelle Cunningham, a fourth-year PhD student at the Celia Scott Weatherhead School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine at Tulane University.
An IDEAAL Opportunity
The first cohort of the Increasing Diversity in and Equitable Access to Applied Learning in Disaster Research Response: IDEAAL DR2 initiative, which was launched this year in partnership with the Center for Disaster Resilient Communities at the University of Washington (UW), gathered in August 2024.
Friday Fellow Feature: Joshua McDuffie
Joshua McDuffie is a fifth-year graduate student pursuing a Ph.D. in civil and environmental engineering at Vanderbilt University.
BAF Fellows Join the 2024 CHEER Summer Scholars Program
In June and July 2024, BAF Fellows Amidu Kalokoh, Melissa Villarreal, and Nelson Adeniji joined six other students in a summer research training program as the second cohort of the Coastal Hazards, Equity, Economic prosperity and Resilience (CHEER) Hub, which is spearheaded by the Disaster Research Center at the University of Delaware.
Friday Fellow Feature: Joseph Karanja
Our Featured Fellow for September 2024 is Joseph Karanja, a PhD candidate in Geographic Information Science at Arizona State University in the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning.