Our Network

CADAN is a collaborative group of practitioners and academics who have been engaged in projects all over the world. Click to learn more about each CADAN member (listed in alphabetical order), and check out the Member Snapshots map to see where we have worked.

Adam Koons

Location of experience: Africa; Asia; Middle East
Type of disaster work: Disaster risk reduction; Emergency management/Disaster management; Humanitarian response
Primary Interests: Livelihoods; Disaster recovery; Food and agriculture; Sustainability and resilience; Migration, displacement, and resettlement; Disaster and people with disabilities.
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Alessandra Jerolleman

Location of experience: North America; Caribbean and Central America; Europe
Type of disaster work: Disaster recovery; Disaster risk reduction; Planning
Primary Interests: Sustainability, resilience, and mitigation; Governance; Migration, displacement, and resettlement; Climate change and climate change adaptation; Emergency management / Disaster management
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Alexa Dietrich

Location of experience: Caribbean and Central America; North America; South America
Type of disaster work: Disaster risk reduction; Community; Sustainability, resilience, and mitigation
Primary Interests: Social vulnerability; Health; Climate change and climate change adaptation; Emergency management / Disaster management; Humanitarian response
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Austin Lord

Location of experience: South Asia; Himalayas
Type of disaster work: Disaster recovery; Community; Humanitarian response; Sustainability, resilience, and mitigation
Primary Interests: Disaster risk reduction; Humanitarian response; Climate change and climate change adaptation; Livelihoods; Memory; Energy; Infrastructure; Environmental governance; Knowledge politics; Uncertainty
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Caela O'Connell

COFOUNDER
Location of experience: Caribbean and Central America; North America; Small Island Developing States (SIDS)
Type of disaster work: Recovery; Sustainability, resilience, and mitigation; Natural hazards
Primary Interests: Climate change and climate change adaptation; Economics; Food and agriculture; Sustainability, resilience, and mitigation; Governance
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Elizabeth Marino

Location of experience: Alaska; Oregon; National/International disaster policy
Type of disaster work: Climate change; Flooding; Forced migration
Primary Interests: Climate change displacement; Relocation; DRR policy; Risk perception; Disaster prevention
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Heather Kirkland

Location of experience: North America
Type of disaster work: Mitigation; Recovery; Culture of emergency management; Inter-generational trauma; Diversity & inclusion
Primary Interests: Disaster risk reduction; Marginalized populations; Inter-generational trauma; Institutional change; Issues surrounding access needs; Hazard mitigation; Diversity & inclusion; Data governance
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Joyce Rivera-González

Location of experience: North America, Caribbean
Type of disaster work: Community; Grassroots disaster recovery; Vulnerability
Primary Interests: Youth; Disaster vulnerability; Recovery; Crisis; livelihoods; Political participation; Community organization; Marginalization; Slow, environmental disasters; Political discourses of resilience
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Julie Maldonado

Location of experience: North America
Type of disaster work: Climate change and climate change adaptation; Migration, displacement, and resettlement; Sustainability, resilience, and mitigation
Primary Interests: Climate change and climate change adaptation; Migration, displacement, and resettlement; Sustainability, resilience, and mitigation; Disaster risk reduction; Energy
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Kate Browne

COFOUNDER
ocation of experience: Caribbean and Central America; North America; Pacific
Type of disaster work: Community; Disaster recovery; Sustainability, resilience, and mitigation
Primary Interests: Disaster recovery; Disaster risk reduction; Social Vulnerability; Livelihoods; Health; History
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Laura Olson

Location of experience: Middle East/North Africa (MENA); North America; Africa; Southeast Asia
Type of disaster work: Disaster recovery; Climate change adaptation; Emergency/disaster management
Primary Interests: Community recovery from disasters; Climate change adaptation; Livelihood resilience; Migration, displacement, and resettlement; Disaster risk reduction
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Laura Yoder

Location of experience: Southeast Asia/Pacific; Latin America; Small Island Developing States
Type of disaster work: Higher education recovery following disasters; Strengthening local institutions; Agricultural resilience
Primary Interests: Environmental factors in risk and disaster recovery; Local institutional collaboration; Social vulnerability
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Keely Maxwell

Location of experience: North America; South America
Type of disaster work: Sustainability, resilience, and mitigation; Community; Environment
Primary Interests: Disaster risk reduction; Disaster response; Disaster recovery
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Melissa Villarreal

Location of experience: North America
Type of disaster work: Long-term disaster recovery; social vulnerability; community-engaged research; intersectionality
Primary Interests: Social vulnerability; sociology of disasters; race/ethnicity and immigration; gender and intersectionality; diversity & inclusion; environmental justice
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Namrita Singh

Location of experience: Europe; Middle East/North Africa (MENA); North America
Type of disaster work: Conflict; Health; Humanitarian response
Primary Interests: Migration, displacement, and resettlement; Community; Disaster recovery; Social vulnerability
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Oronde Drakes

Location of experience: North America, Guyana 
Type of disaster work: Social vulnerability, natural hazards, indicators, disaster assistance, risk, equity 
Primary Interests: Disaster risk reduction; Marginalized populations; Hazard mitigation; Index development and validation, Multihazard assessments 
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Sarah Powell

Location of experience: North America, Republic of Ireland
Type of disaster work: Emergency management; Risk management; Disaster behavioral health; Public health preparedness; All-hazards planning: response, mitigation, recovery
Primary Interests: Evidence-informed practice; Social and cultural capital; Psycho-social impacts; Organizational culture; Diversity; Strategic planning and implementation; Disaster recovery and resilience
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Shirley Fiske

Location of experience: North America; Global and local climate change
Type of disaster work: Hurricane, tornado, coastal storm surge, sea level rise; forest wildfire & urban wildland interface; “slow-onset disasters” like climate change.
Primary interests: climate change adaptation, policy & impacts, including sea level rise, storm surges, and severe storms; resettlement and displacement; environmental justice and social equity.
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