Today, I am excited to have the second of my discussions about racial justice and disaster research with Bill Anderson Fund Fellows - my guests are Nancy Contreras and Antoine Richards.
 
Nancy Contreras is a Ph.D. candidate in Criminology at the University of Delaware. She is a Bill Anderson Fund Fellow and an affiliate of the Disaster Research Center. Her dissertation explores international transit migration using legal violence, social
vulnerability, and resiliency. Nancy also investigates race-based culture-specific programming, social movement organizing,
and perceived police-community relations. Her previous practitioner experience covers safe haven homelessness, the juvenile
justice system, and behavioral health. Nancy’s current research interests include forced migration, borders, and social disasters.
 
Antoine Richards is a Doctor of Science (DSc) student in Emergency Management at Jacksonville State University. Currently, he is a Bill Anderson Fund Fellow, Senior Advisor for the Institute for Diversity and Inclusion in Emergency Management (I- DIEM), Director of Research for Peacebuilding Solutions; a 501(c)3 non-profit organization focusing on humanitarian assistance for forcibly-displaced  populations; Richards received his Master of Public Health (MPH) degree from the Morehouse School of Medicine. His current research interests include social vulnerability, community resilience, and policy.