Sarah DeYoung, leader of the Hub’s households thrust and community engagement director, discusses post-disaster “information vacuums” and an “ongoing pattern across human history of seeking blame in disasters.”
CHEER households thrust leader and community engagement director Sarah DeYoung offers her perspective on misinformation and federal response in the aftermath of Hurricanes Helene and Milton.
Sarah DeYoung, CHEER’s community engagement director, discusses how disinformation and conspiracy theories have proliferated and hindered recovery during a particularly traumatic hurricane season and polarizing election.
Eventually, a major hurricane will hit Montauk, and the eastern Long Island hamlet — whose lifeblood is the ocean — is not ready.
This meeting was the Hub’s first step in establishing its standing practitioners partners – a group of government, non-government, and private sector practitioners who will help identify relevant research questions and provide advice on CHEER projects.
Earlier this year, several Hub members participated in a day-long graduate student workshop focusing on the future of disaster planning and response at the University of Delaware.
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