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).
Fellows
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.
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.
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.
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.