Author: Devin
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“Sharing Data to Improve How We Cooperate, Coordinate, Communicate & Collaborate” at NVOAD 5/14/15
This presentation was delivered at the National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster Conference 2015 in New Orleans. I’ve been an active (and actively marginalized) participant in my local NYCVOAD community, so it was nice to feel accepted by the broader VOAD community. Of all the presentations I’ve given, this one felt the best. The audience…
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Scattered Showers of Interest
The establishment, at least a very small subset of it, discovered my work the second week of October. It wasn’t a thunderstorm of interest — more like scattered showers — but when you’ve been in the desert for a while, a little rain can go a long way. First stop on my tour was Washington…
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NYC:Prepared Presentation at RaCERS John Jay College 10/14/14
“The Christian Regenhard Center for Emergency Response Studies (RaCERS) is a unique applied research center focused on documentation of lessons learned and planning for future large-scale incidents.” I had the honor of presenting to one of their classes of students pursuing masters degrees in Emergency Management as well as a number of professors in the school.…
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NYC:Prepared Presentation at IEEE HTC 2014
I had the honor of presenting NYC:Prepared at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Humanitarian Technology Conference 2014 held in San Jose, California. The presentation situates Occupy Sandy within the context of Occupy Wall Street and explains how social movements prepare participants to respond during disaster. It goes on to outline four phases of…