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).
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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.
Climate Justice Advocacy & Lobbying Teach-In Day: Building a Pipeline for Climate Justice
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.
Friday Fellow Feature: Alexa Riobueno-Naylor
Our Featured Fellow for July 2024 is Alexa Riobueno-Naylor (she/her). Alexa is a fifth-year PhD candidate in counseling psychology in the Department of Counseling, Developmental, and Educational Psychology at Boston College, where she works with Dr. Betty S. Lai. Alexa is dedicated to supporting youth and families affected by disasters and other traumatic stressors through both research and clinical work
Friday Fellow Feature: Dr. Wendell Grinton, Jr.
Our Featured Fellow for June 2024 is Dr. Wendell Grinton, Jr., who successfully defended his dissertation on April 30th and received a doctoral degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Virginia Tech. He also earned a graduate certificate in Disaster Resilience and Risk Management (DRRM). His doctoral research focused on ways to improve the communication of civil infrastructure messages to the public.
Friday Fellow Feature: Jennifer R. Blanks
Our featured Fellow for May 2024 is Dr. Jennifer Blanks, who will be graduating this month with a Ph.D. in urban and regional science from Texas A&M University.