Ker'en Walters 
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
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.
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.
Our Featured Fellow for April 2024 is Natalie Coleman, a PhD Candidate in the Civil and Environmental Engineering department, under the construction engineering management program at Texas A&M University.
Our Featured Fellow for March 2024 is Nick Humphrey, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Landscape Architecture, Disaster Resilience, and Emergency Management at North Dakota State University.
In January 2024 the Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) hosted BAF Fellow Brittany Giles Jones as part of a multi-organizational site visit to disaster-affected communities in Louisiana to help inform research and practice.
Our Featured Fellow for December 2023 is Melissa Villarreal, a PhD Candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Colorado (CU) Boulder.
Our Featured Fellow for November is Dr. Christin Salley. Dr. Salley graduated with her PhD in Civil Engineering, with a concentration in Construction and Infrastructure Systems, from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology this summer.
Our featured Fellow for October 2023 is Ciara Horne. Ciara is a Systems Engineering doctoral candidate at the University of Virginia (UVA).
Our Featured Fellow for September 2023 is Felicia A. Henry, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at the University of Delaware.
