Academics and practitioners see resilience as a critical driver of a community's success or failure in recovering or bouncing back from disasters. Jill Raycroft discusses her thesis, "Realizing Resilience: A Study of Definition, Indicators, and Operationalization," and provides insight into improving resilience by bridging how it is studied in theory and practiced in the field.
Michelle Mallek (CHDS cohort 1401) is legal counsel at FEMA and decided to study ‘Sovereigns‘ because much of the terrorist discussion in mainstream media...
David Flamm (CHDS Master's cohort 1401/2) discusses the inefficiencies, conflicts, and misinterpretations that are created by emergency responders who rely on different approaches to...
Jessica Bress is the Director of Continuing Education for the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department. Her thesis explores United States’ drug policy and finds it...
