Sarah Posner

Kenya

Sarah Posner is a graduate student in human geography at the University of Colorado Boulder. She received a B.A in environmental studies from the University of Arizona. Her research interests are in food security, health, rural livelihoods, and vulnerability to climate change. As part of her Master’s thesis, she conducted household surveys within rural communities of Isiolo, Northern Kenya to assess coping and adaptive strategies at the local level. In Nairobi, Sarah will support work on development of impact based forecasts in Kenya that will be used to trigger early action before extreme drought events that occur. Read more ...

Juhri Selamet

Mozambique

Juhri Selamet is a PhD student in the College of Media, Comunication and Information at University of Colorado Boulder. He has a bachelor’s degree from Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia and a master’s degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago. His research interests are visual communication, corporate social responsibility, climate change, water, conservation, media coverage of risk and the environment, and strategic environmental communication. Read more ...

Katie Chambers

Ethiopia

Katie is a PhD student in Environmental Engineering with a focus on Engineering for Developing Communities. She earned her B.S. in Environmental Engineering from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo in 2016. In Ethiopia, Katie will be developing flood inundation maps for communities downstream of hydroelectric dams. These maps will guide the development of Early Warning Early Action frameworks for the Ethiopian Red Cross Society and IFRC. Her environmental engineering research investigates the comparative vulnerabilities and resilience of different types of sanitation systems found in resource-limited communities, as well as the tradeoffs made when prioritizing resilience in system selection. Read more ...

Sierra Gladfelter

Zambia

In Zambia, Sierra will be supporting the monitoring and evaluation component of the 'City Learning Lab processes’ Zambia Red Cross Society program. This includes supporting the facilitation and documentation of the First Lusaka Learning Lab for the Future Resilience for African Cities and Lands (FRACTAL) project, including contribution to the development of a learning framework and establishing a learning baseline, researching background materials and preparing reading materials in collaboration with the FRACTAL team and documenting learning during the Learning Lab interactions and compiling a learning report. In addition, Sierra will support ongoing field work activities of the Zambia Red Cross Society as well as contribute to the sharing of concepts for the ‘Forecast Based Finance’ project, compiling existing materials on forecast based finance, developing a participatory training course to illustrate the principles of Forecast Based Finance. Read more ...

Leslie Dodson

Lusaka, Zambia and Capetown, South Africa

Leslie Dodson is a PhD candidate in the ATLAS Institute at CU-Boulder’s College of Engineering and Applied Science, where she is pursuing a doctorate in Technology, Media & Society. Her Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICTD) research involves the design of a communications system for the largest fog water harvesting project in North Africa which will serve hundreds of rural Berber residents in southwest Morocco. Read more ...

Drew Zackary

Lira, Apac, Karamoja and Otuke, Uganda

Drew Zackary is a Phd student in cultural Anthropology at CU Boulder.  He received a M.A. in Anthropology from UC Denver and a Bachelor of Sciences in Psychology from Colorado State University. Drew’s current interest is in how climate change, livelihoods, conservation and culture interact at the local level.  His Masters thesis investigated ranching livelihoods outside of Yellowstone National Park after wolf re-introduction. Previously he has used sustainable livelihoods household assessment models to work in teams investigating agriculture in Ecuador. Read more

Amy Quandt

Isiolo, Kenya

Executive Summary

Climate-Smart, Ecosystem-Friendly Livelihoods Assessment prepared by Amy Quandt

Arielle Tozier de la Poterie

Soroti, Uganda

Executive Summary

Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment (VCA) Report for Climate Change Adaptation Project in Teso and Karamoja prepared by Arielle Tozier de la Poterie

Kanmani Venkateswaran

Lusaka, Zambia

Executive Summary

Improving Flood Risk Management in Zambia prepared by Kanmani Venkateswaran