Lori Peek

Lori Peek was recently featured on National Public Radio regarding Dominica’s bold efforts to become the world’s first “climate resilient nation.”

Adams, Rachel M., Candace M. Evans, and Lori Peek. “CONVERGE Training Modules: A Free Online Educational Tool for Hazards and Disaster Researchers and Practitioners.” Frontiers in Built Environment, 9, https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fbuil.2023.1096204/full

Lori Peek served as an invited panelist for the Virtual Book launch for Soaking the Middle Class: Suburban Inequality and Recovery from Disaster. The event was hosted by NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge.

Lori Peek’s research was featured in a Coloradan article entitled, How Natural Disasters Impact Vulnerable Populations

Colorado Residents Ponder the Road Ahead After Wildfires https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/02/us/colorado-fire-damage.html The New York Times. January 2, 2022 Biden Consoles Residents in Fire-Ravaged Colorado https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/07/us/politics/biden-colorado-fires.html The New York Times. January 7, 2022* She was also featured in a CU Boulder Today story and quoted in an Associated Press article and the Denver...

Lori Peek and Mithra Moezzi won the 2021 Best Paper Award for the journal Risk Analysis from the Society for Risk Analysis for their article, “Stories for Interdisciplinary Disaster Research Collaboration.”

Lori Peek’s written testimony as well as a recording of the hearing where she testified as an expert witness before the Homeland Security Committee, U.S. House of Representatives is available here

She begins her term of service today, September 7, 2021.

Lori Peek was quoted in the follow Washington Post article focused on school safety in extreme weather and earthquake events.

This posting focuses on supporting families in their preparedness efforts in advance of hurricane season, which started on June 1.