community
Venezuela's Cautionary Tale for US FEMA Reform
How years of political instability accelerated a humanitarian crisis into a catastrophe, and how it informs our current moment
community
disaster-recovery
Triple Threats, Compounding Disasters
How the earthquakes and typhoons of September-November 2025 in the Philippines show the knock-on effects of climate change — and political tides
community
Go Ahead and Overshare. It Might Give You the Answers You're Looking For
Why locking ourselves behind "social acceptability" might be undermining our resilience after disasters
community
Answering Love Rebels' Questions
Thinking more deeply about activism and myself as an activist in emergency management
community
Could Social Outcasts Hold a Key to Disaster Response?
People worry about "crime" immediately after disaster. Directing people's energy to response could be a solution
book-review
How to Organize When You're Not Good at It
A review of Love Rebels: How I Learned to Burn Things Down Without Burning Out
community
Have Our Online Lives Eroded Our Communities?
And can we bring ourselves back from collapse?
community
If FEMA Goes Away, Could Communities Step Up?
Three books offer a vision of future disaster recovery – if we can come together in mutuality
disaster-recovery
If Disaster Response Shifts to States, How Can Communities Respond?
Waiting for rescue probably isn't sustainable for any of us
community
Organizing in Community, Also When You Have No Experience
Stepping up isn't just about collecting training or experience. It's also about healing past trauma.
emergency-management
Taking Experiential Training When You Have No Experience
Learning as much as I can from people who know a lot better than I do... and my own instincts
emergency-management
What's a Girl Have to Do to Get Into a Graduate Program?
There's explaining why I want to get this degree. Then there's bleeding on the page.