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Assistant Policy Researcher; Ph.D. Candidate, Pardee RAND Graduate School
Assistant Policy Researcher, RAND; Ph.D. Candidate, Pardee RAND Graduate School
Essay
Mar 14, 2023
Dec 29, 2022
Commentary
Jun 25, 2024
In this paper, authors provide key findings for policymakers and other stakeholders on development of critical minerals projects in Alaska. A summary of a tabletop exercise methodology conducted to produce the findings is also presented.
Testimony
Nov 29, 2023
Testimony submitted to the U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security on November 29, 2023.
Jun 7, 2023
This Perspective includes a characterization of the market for landslide insurance in Southeast Alaska and a description of four approaches that stakeholders might consider to make landslide coverage more available.
Brochure
Mar 22, 2023
The cover story describes how K-12 schools can build trust with students to increase threat reporting and strengthen school safety. The Q&A with Ashley Woo explores how restrictions on race- and gender-related topics are affecting teachers.
A 2015 landslide that killed three people in Sitka, Alaska, changed how residents looked at the steep hills all around them. The community worked with researchers to develop a warning system to prevent such tragedies in the future.
Journal Article
Mar 1, 2023
This paper describes a community-level co-design process among academic, state, and federal scientists and the community of Sitka, Alaska to develop a novel landslide warning system for the small coastal town.
Jul 28, 2022
We explored how participatory techniques could overcome one disaster risk financing-related stalemate: the case of landslide insurance in a highly landslide-prone location, Sitka, Alaska.
Mar 29, 2022
This report documents findings from the evaluation of Alaska's waiver, through which the state implemented the Alaska Reinsurance Program (ARP).
Feb 18, 2022
To help improve landslide communication in Sitka, we used a community-partnered approach to social network analysis to identify potential key actors for landslide risk communication and structural holes that may inhibit communication.
Nov 12, 2021
Following fatal landslides, the town of Sitka, Alaska, worked with scientists to create a new, individualized hazard warning system, revealing the complexities of coproducing knowledge.
Jan 12, 2021
Long before it was popularized and made its way into political slogans and economic recovery battle cries, the phrase “building back better” was a central tenet of disaster recovery and community resilience. How should community voices be incorporated into “building back better” processes?
Jun 12, 2019
Analyzing the potential effects of the broad range of perceived discrimination (PD) experiences, including both overt PD and racial microaggressions, among urban American Indian/Alaska Native adolescents on health outcomes offers a unique opportunity to further our understanding of these health disparities.
