Lori Peek

Please check out this piece written by Lori Peek drawing on lessons from studying disaster-affected children and youth, which helped with navigating the classroom environment after the Boulder shootings. We hope this can be of use to you and other educators who are trying to provide support to young people...

Lori Peek was featured as part of the new Buff Innovator Insights podcast launched by the Research and Innovation Office here at CU Boulder. You can listen to the 25 minute interview between Lori and Vice Chancellor Terri Fiez here !

Candace Evans and Lori Peek, along with Jerika Heinze (founder of The Fieldwork Initiative) and Rachel Adams (of the Natural Hazards Center), recently completed work and released a new NSF-funded CONVERGE Training Module. This online course focuses on Understanding and Ending Gender-Based Violence in Fieldwork. You can register and access...

Lori Peek and the Natural Hazards Center received a $30,000 gift from an anonymous donor to establish a new Disability and Disasters Award for the hazards and disaster research and practice community. This award will bring those who care for, study, or advocate on behalf of those with disabilities to...

Lori Peek received $419,940 in supplemental funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to her current NSF-funded CONVERGE award to develop and launch two additional online training modules – the first focused on Ethical Considerations for Hazards and Disaster Researchers and the second focused on Collecting and Sharing...

Statement on being displaced by the CalWood fire, preparedness and next steps to get ready for disaster.

Bertha Alicia Bermudez Tapia, Tracy Fehr, Skye Niles, Candace Evans, Rachel Adams, and Lori Peek developed and released a new NSF-funded CONVERGE Training Module on the topic of Conducting Emotionally Challenging Research. You can view the free, online module at: https://converge.colorado.edu/resources/training-modules Also, please see the following Center News release with...

Lori Peek was quoted in an Atlantic article this week, this one entitled, “A Failure of Empathy Led to 200,000 Deaths. It Has Deep Roots.”