Ker'en Walters 
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.
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.
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).
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).
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.
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.
Joshua McDuffie is a fifth-year graduate student pursuing a Ph.D. in civil and environmental engineering at Vanderbilt University.
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.
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.
On July 26, 2024, the Bill Anderson Fund partnered with Mockingbird Incubator, Youth on Root, and the University of California Irvine C.L.I.M.A.T.E. Justice Initiative to produce a daylong teach-in training on advocacy and lobbying for youth climate justice organizers.
