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Meet Our SURGE Participants

Changing The Landscape of Research and Practice

Participants: Welcome

2018 Cohort

Muritala Adegoke

Civil Engineering,
Morgan State University

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Lilian Bui

Urban Studies and Planning
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Miriam Commodore - Mensah

Social Work
University of Nebraska at Omaha

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Sahar Derakhshan

Geography 
University of South Carolina

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Isaiah Higgs

East Carolina University

Urban Planning

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Rashon Lane

Medical Sociology
University of California, San Francisco

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Covel McDermot

Urban Ecology 
University of Delaware

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Farah Nibbs

Disaster Science 
University of Delaware

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Génesis Álvarez Rosario

Social Policy and Human Services Management
University of Puerto Rico - Río Piedras

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Shanasia Sylman

Urban Planning 
Harvard University

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Participants: Meet the Team

2019 Cohort

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Luz E. Agudelo

Environmental Studies
College of Charleston

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Paula Buchanan

Emergency Management
Jacksonville State University

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Gillian Maris Jones

Anthropology and Africana Studies
University of Pennsylvania

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Julian Jones

Food and Nutritional Sciences
Tuskegee University

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Ashley J. Méndez Heavilin

Social Planning
University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras

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Karen Montes-Berríos

Disaster Science and Management
University of Delaware

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Danielle Nicholson

Industrial Engineering
Florida A&M University

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Christina Kaululani Sun

Global Health Epidemiology
University of Washington

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Mehari K. Tesfay

Architectural Engineering
University of Nebraska–Lincoln

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Morolake Omoya

Civil Engineering
University of California Los Angeles

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Olivia Vilá

Parks, Recreation, and Tourism Management
North Carolina State University

Participants: Meet the Team
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