Rice paddies and river in Southeast Asia

Research

Research Areas

Organizational resilience (organizational adaptation, cumulative exposure, long-term recovery)
Social impacts of disasters (social capital, community capacity building, migration, climate adaptation)
Gender and social movements (feminist leadership, collective action in crisis)
Mixed methods research design

Research Positions

2025 – 2026

Pre-Doctoral Fellow

Global Resilience Institute, Northeastern University

Wrote and submitted $400K NSF Science of Organizations proposal (under review)
Assisted with the co-development of tools integrating National Weather Model for enhanced flood planning and community preparedness in VT and MO
Led data collection and analysis of community resilience indicators for NOAA-funded research in the USVI

2023 – 2024

Research Assistant, NSF-funded: Private Governance and Climate Change

PIs: Dr. Sara Constantino and Dr. Alicia Cooperman

Examined factors shaping how individuals experience and respond to extreme weather and climatic pressures on the Texas Coast
Coordinated fieldwork trips in Galveston and Brownsville, Texas
Led qualitative research efforts for multi-researcher team, including conducting in-person interviews, overseeing intercoder agreement, coding data in ATLAS.ti, and writing research reports for publications and conference presentations

2021 – 2023

Research Assistant, NSF-funded: Innovation Networks: The Creation and Diffusion of Gender Equity Ideas in Universities

PIs: Dr. Katrina Zippel and Dr. Laura Nelson

Assisted with study design and implementation examining how relationships within the NSF ADVANCE network shaped institutional pandemic responses using a community of practice framework
Scheduled and prepared materials for 46 interviews with university administrators and faculty
Coded and analyzed all interviews using ATLAS.ti software and conducted extensive literature review
Co-authored two resulting publications