Knowledge Exchange for Resilience
Annual Report
2021
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Directors’ welcome
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Research accomplishments
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Mission and words from President Michael M. Crow
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Solutions for heat mitigation in mobile homes
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Our vision
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Designing for Resilience Dividends
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Blueprint of action
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Quantifying impact
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Resilience and Equity
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In the news
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Celebration for Resilience
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Scholarly publications
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Resilience Prize
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Council of Resilience Leaders
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Hunch Lunch: Building Back Better
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Leadership and core team
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Resilience Fellows
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Sponsors and knowledge partners
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Mitigating the evictions surge
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Directors’ Welcome A transformative year to scale up impact There is no better time than now to talk about transitions. As we face what it means to recover from a lingering global shock, we are individually and collectively redefining “normal.” This transition period is not only a time of profound shock, grief and change, but also one of relief and opportunity. Many of us are making our way back to work and back to school and adapting our lives in ways that may have been unthinkable just a couple of years ago. For the Knowledge Exchange for Resilience at ASU, this period coincides with our planned transition from Phase I to Phase II. In Phase I, we began piloting knowledge mechanisms, designing activities, and building relationships to implement our work in Maricopa County. In Phase II, we are now scaling up our efforts and expanding our impact on sustained, equitable community resilience. Our organizational transition offers an opportunity for real transformation. This requires r eflection, purpose and a thorough, systematic remaking of the character of our work. This year we are transforming KER in the following ways. •
Evolving our mission and vision for the future to expand and deepen the impact of the work we built and piloted with many of you, as our partners and associates, around the intersection of our FUSE themes. FUSE refers to how we connect heat resilience to secure Food, energy and water; Urban heat resilience and health; Shelter, home and the built environment; and the Economy and a resilient workforce - keeping in mind the need for equitable solutions across all of these themes. In this report, you’ll see this thematic framework solidified as our vision for building community resilience through our work. Read about our vision of resilience for Maricopa County on page 5.
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Setting in place a robust structure for how to implement our work in innovative ways, taking into account what we have shared and discovered along the way. This means that some of our experiments are ending, some of our activities will become signature, and some new gaps will be filled. It also means that our team and their roles have been clarified and empowered. In this year’s report, you’ll see how we have elevated the leadership of our Associate Directors and how that fits with a new Blueprint of Action, which will help us to scale up our impact. Read about our Blueprint of Action and Associate Directors on page 7.
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Scaling up: There are many ways to define scale, and we are doing so in this transition with a strategic approach. For instance, we are positioned to be the “gold standard” for heat resilience not just for Maricopa County, but for the United States and the world. We are also positioned to lead from experience in building researchbacked, action-oriented, and equity-minded community resilience interventions. From our home in the Global Futures Laboratory, we will be working to become an innovative example that inspires broader strategic action. We have made a good start with the recognition this year that ASU is #1 in Resilience and in Innovation. Learn about the role of innovation in resilience on page 30.
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Elizabeth Wentz Director and Principal Investigator wentz@asu.edu
Expanding our impact: A purposeful transition refocuses us on asking, who benefits from the work we do, and how might we amplify these outcomes? For KER, this means mobilizing existing and new collaborators within our multi-sector network to invest in community resilience, and promoting allocation of human and financial resources for systems transformation. In this report, you will read about how we are measuring the impact of our research and partnerships. Read more about how we measure our impact on page 37.
As we collectively transition to a “new normal,” and as we embark on our next phase of action at KER, we consider this a transformative opportunity, a moment that resonates with the chance to “build back better.” It reminds us of the urgency to adapt and build resilience together.
Patricia Solís Executive Director patricia.solis@asu.edu
KER moves into the newly constructed Interdisciplinary Science and Technology Building 7 in December 2021.
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Resilience begins with resilient leaders “My background allows me to understand what it’s like to feel that you want just a little bit of help — being able to be flexible and adaptable and engageable, I think that’s what my background helps me to see.” President Crow discusses his formative years and how they’ve influenced his mission to create the New American University in Our American Stories. Listen to “The Blue Collar Leader of America’s Most Innovative University” at bit.ly/3vouTm6.
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Our mission The mission of the Knowledge Exchange for Resilience is to support Maricopa County, Arizona, by sharing knowledge, catalyzing discovery, and building solutions to catalyze change in order to build community resilience. We work to support profound and enduring change across organizations to bring resilience dividends.
“Hopefully your attention has been garnered by the pandemic, which we have not been sufficiently resilient around. How do we take on something 40 times longer and 50 times more complicated than the pandemic? We do that by changing the design logic ; by accepting the fact that all things are going to be changing; and by making decisions more broadly, more resiliently, more adaptively, more quickly.” — M ICHAE L M. CROW, ASU PR ESI DE NT
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Our vision What do resilient systems look like? We frame our vision of resilience around four fundamental systems, identified in collaboration with our ASU and community partners:
Food, energy and water transitions Food and water systems in a resilient community are characterized by equitable distribution and reliable access to safe, healthy foods and adequate quantities of clean water for all residents everywhere. The energy landscape of a resilient community consists of a diverse, integrated array of resources and infrastructure for obtaining sustainable and renewable fuel for cooling, heating, and mobilizing in our homes, businesses, and public spaces, as well as to fuel transportation systems that are available and accessible to all rural and urban residents across the county and beyond.
Economic security and work Resilient communities are economically secure, with organizations from private, public, and education sectors alike working in concert to meet present needs and prepare for future dynamics. Residents are able to generate consistent income or work for fair wages, salaries, or compensation in an integrated workforce and education system that provides equitable access to opportunities. People participating in resilient economies are able to withstand downturns, confront changes from growth, and successfully face a dynamic future of work, and ideally dedicate their talents towards productive capacity that itself can build capacity for community resilience.
In addition, we emphasize that here in Maricopa County, heat resilience is a major crosscutting theme. We recognize that community resilience relies upon attention to equity , including that shocks and stresses often disproportionately affect particular vulnerable and disadvantaged populations, requiring a proactive approach that centers on community voices with lived experiences. Finally, we acknowledge that place-based understandings are critical, and that these themes will play out differently depending on the place in which we are considering how to build resilience. Visit resilience.asu.edu/FUSE-themes to learn more.
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Urban heat and healthy communities
Shelter and the built environment
Healthy, resilient communities create the necessary social and physical environments that promote good health for all, capable of thriving in the face of potential chronic stressors, such as heat exposure, and of withstanding shocks such as rapidmoving epidemics. Access to care and prevention facilities is equitable, and services are responsive to locally relevant threats to residents of all ages and backgrounds.
Shelter in resilient communities is ubiquitous, affordable, safe, and secure. Housing options are diverse and available in adequate quantities and at proper quality to every resident, providing relief from heat, floods, or other environmental threats. Periods of lack of shelter, whether experienced by students, families, veterans, elderly or others, are infrequent and nonrecurring.
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A new blueprint of action Framing our work to become a model for the New American University, Maricopa county and beyond During this moment of transition, we reflected upon our successes and lessons learned. We created a streamlined framework for activities that will enable us to scale up and achieve greater impact. We retain our core focus on data and partnerships, which lie at the center of all we do to share, discover and solve. “This blueprint will help us to accomplish our aim to transform the university by aligning to the institution’s enterprise framework,” says Patricia Solís, executive director of KER. Organized into the same three domains — academic enterprise, knowledge enterprise and learning enterprise — this framing will allow our activities to take root within the appropriate setting of the institution, ensure that KER has a university-wide influence, and deepen the process of institutionalization. The activity domains leverage both the best of what we have innovated in our first three years, and fill in gaps for innovation that we discovered. We identified these ten domains through reflection and a developmental evaluation conducted by our Director, Executive Director and Evaluator over the first six months of 2021, including consultations with the Piper Trust and many partners and participants. Four of our faculty members have stepped into Associate Director roles this year to lead these new domains, strengthen our established activities, and fill in needed gaps.
Our Associate Directors Melissa Guardaro Associate Director for Resilience Hubs Focused on development and implementation of Resilience Hubs, upskilling, certifications, consultations, convenings — especially Hunch Lunch content — and related products and services
Mason Mathews Associate Director for Academic Integration and Alliances Focused on development and implementation of the Alliances Toolkit, social network analyses, collaboration services, support to academic integration and P&T activities
Sarbeswar Praharaj Associate Director for Data and Visualization Focused on development and implementation of dashboards, briefings, visualizations and collaboration on modeling, as well as data support for resilience dividends series and related products and services
Lora Phillips Associate Director for Broader Impacts Focused on development and implementation of fellowship support for academic and community projects and responsive research, as well as design and deployment of broader impacts mechanisms for resilience-related proposals
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How we work Academic Enterprise
Knowledge Enterprise
Learning Enterprise
As KER assumes greater visibility in the Global Futures Laboratory (GFL) in this next phase of growth, we will continue to work very closely with the Office of the President, the College of Global Futures and the Decision Theater, as they also grow within GFL.
“KER is designed to lead efforts that provide solutions to the impact of pressing problems. KER’s efforts in the Phoenix metro area will also benefit communities across the United States and around the world.” — PETE R SCH LOSSE R, VICE PR ESI DE NT AN D VICE PROVOST, J U LI E AN N WR IG LEY G LOBAL FUTU R ES LAB ORATORY
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Resilience + Equity Addressing systemic inequities through data and partnerships “We can’t really enhance resilience without first tackling systemic inequities,” says Sara Meerow, an assistant professor in the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning. A former KER Resilience Fellow, Meerow leads the Planning for Urban Resilience Lab and is a member of the leadership team for the Equitable Places Lab at ASU. Her research is driven by the question of how to make cities more resilient in a way that is also just and equitable.
Each year, Jackson teaches our fellows about how to leverage community creativity to build more resilient and equitable places. She has also served as a de facto advisor for many fellows, helping them put these lessons into practice. ■ Visit the Planning for Urban Resilience Lab at bit.ly/3De5jmP ■ Visit the Studio for Creativity, Place and Equitable Communities at bit.ly/30ciGW5
“More and more studies are showing how there are racial inequities in exposure to different kinds of hazards,” she notes. “For example, often the hottest areas are also areas that were historically redlined, where you have higher percentages of minority communities.” KER research has confirmed this trend in Phoenix. Mapping land surface temperature and heat-related illness over old redlining boundaries shows a correlation between historical underinvestment and heat vulnerability. “You can just see it,” says Melissa Guardaro, KER’s associate director for resilience hubs. “You can just drive through the different neighborhoods and see the difference in tree plantings and public spaces for cooling. It is starkly apparent.” But even well-intentioned solutions may enhance resilience for some members of the community while reducing it for the very people it was intended to help. “There’s a long tradition in the US of efforts to build stronger, more resilient infrastructure that end up forcing people out of neighborhoods and leading to displacement,” says Meerow. That’s why partnering with communities from start to finish is crucial. KER collaborates with Maria Rosario Jackson, director of the Herberger Institute’s Studio for Creativity, Place and Equitable Communities, to help us build this capacity in our Resilience Fellows. An expert in creative placemaking, Jackson emphasizes the role that arts and design have to play in making communities more connected and resilient. “Designers and artists are unique and often underactivated assets in communities,” she says.
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Guest writer Elise Miller covered our work on redlining and heat vulnerability for ASU News, including maps created by KER GIS Analyst Abdulrahman “Al” Alsanad. Read her piece at bit.ly/3BY40YG
“We must remember that this is a moment of crisis and hardship — and it is also a moment of possibility and transformation.” — MAR IA ROSAR IO JACKSON, DI R ECTOR, STU DIO FOR CR EATIVITY, PLACE AN D EQU ITAB LE COM M U N ITI ES
Maria Rosario Jackson The Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts
Sara Meerow ASU School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning
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Celebration for Resilience Reflecting on actions that inspire us to transform through challenging times This year, it seemed more appropriate than ever to gather and reflect on the challenges we faced over the past two years, and to celebrate the moments when we showcased a collective ability to adapt and persevere. The 2021 Celebration of Resilience provided an opportunity to do just that. Against the magnificent backdrop of the Heard Museum, leaders from across our community and university gathered to honor the work of the last year to build back better. The evening featured the Resilience Prize ceremony and poster presentations by the 2021 Resilience Fellows. Attendees also enjoyed the premiere of a short documentary film by the Rocky Mountain Emmy-winning Fervor Creative, exploring KER’s collaboration with local partners to enhance heat resilience for mobile home residents. Award-winning author and journalist Jessica Bruder gave a special address, and every attendee received a complementary copy of her book “Nomadland”. The book documents the lives of itinerant Americans living with housing insecurity who travel from job to job out of economic necessity.
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Jessica Bruder Author of “Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century”
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Resilience Prize Maricopa County Public Health Department illustrates the benefits of a long-term approach using data to drive adaptation Intended to bring widespread recognition to the significance of building community resilience, the Resilience Prize highlights outstanding collective, long-term and systemic efforts to improve community resilience and build prosperity in Maricopa County. Five elements of community resilience outlined by Dr. Judith Rodin in her book The Resilience Dividend inspired the criteria for prize selection: awareness, diversity, integration, the capacity for self-regulation, and adaptiveness. KER was pleased to present the 2021 Resilience Prize to the Maricopa County Public Health Department (MCPDH), Office of Epidemiology and Data Services for its long-standing commitment to building community resilience through data and partnerships, a longrunning effort that has been paying dividends in this time of stress. MCDPH responded to the growing threat of extreme heat by chronicling the health impacts and loss of life caused by extreme temperatures. “In July of 2005, in Maricopa County there was a big heat event,” says Vjollca Berisha, senior epidemiologist for MCPDH Office of Epidemiology. “We had high temperatures, and those temperatures contributed to a total of 45 deaths in that month.” The next year, MCPDH began a program of heat surveillance, gathering data on heat-related illness and death in our community. This data has allowed the team to inform cooling centers and water distribution and to target outreach and education efforts. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, extreme temperatures exacerbated the threat to already
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vulnerable communities. But having data on heatassociated public health impacts accelerated our community’s ability to respond. The office also expanded its capacity significantly to meet the increased needs of Maricopa County residents. This year, the county continuously improved the usefulness, quality and reach of heat-affected health metrics. Coming together with many organizations across the valley, MCDPH used a data-driven approach to share knowledge, discover new perspectives, and forge plans to respond.
”If we want a resilient community, we need to meet people where they are. We need to listen to their voices. We need to learn how to shift the power because they may have the experience, they may have the solutions … However, they don’t have connections.” — VJOLLCA B E R ISHA, SE N IOR E PI DE M IOLOG IST, MCPH D OFFICE OF E PI DE M IOLOGY
Their work underpins countless efforts by residents, organizations, governments, and researchers to set in motion efforts at response and adaptation to one of the valley’s most critical threats. We are grateful for their example and are pleased to recognize their long-term efforts that support and inspire many other collective initiatives around heat resilience and public health.
“This year, in which we find ourselves continuing to recover from a global pandemic, we are particularly keen to recognize an awardee that offers a powerful example of what we can do collectively to prepare for and respond to shocks and stresses by building resilient solutions based on data.” — E LIZAB ETH WE NTZ, DI R ECTOR, KNOWLE DG E EXCHANG E FOR R ESI LI E NCE
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EVENT HIGHLIGHT
Hunch Lunch Forging deeper connections among resilience leaders Our annual Hunch Lunch serves as an opportunity to break down silos of knowledge and let non-academic expertise take center stage. Researchers and community experts share their hunches around a particular resilience theme while enjoying a meal together. This year, it was also the official launch of our Knowledge Exchange Circle. After more than a year of connecting remotely, 30 KER fellows and scholars — past and present — gathered in Old Main to share ideas mask-to-mask this September. Patricia Solís opened the event by welcoming participants and laying out KER’s vision for the Knowledge Exchange Circle, an alumni network made up of former and current resilience fellows and scholars. The circle will serve as a community of practice around the themes of resilience and universitycommunity collaboration. With 60 members already, this network will provide a sounding board and resource for responsive research. Over the next hour, fellows, scholars and KER faculty shared their hunches based on work from the previous year. While the range of topics covered a broad spectrum — from urban farms to website development — the themes of connectedness and embeddedness continually played a role in the talks. The event also featured the unveiling of the Knowledge Exchange Playbook to Build Community Resilience. This playbook, created by our crosscutting design scholars, presents strategies and activities organizations can use to scale up the impact of community work.
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Resilience Fellows 2021 cohort takes collaboration to the next level Each year we bring community experts and ASU researchers together for a year-long program to share knowledge and conduct research on local vulnerabilities and solutions. The cohort meets regularly so that as they explore resilience concepts and research practices, they also have the opportunity to teach and learn from one another. For example, as climate experts learn about the daily work of combating homelessness, and nonprofit managers pick up new data analysis skills, the fellows develop a network of supportive relationships to lean on while they study and implement changes to build community resilience. This year, two pairs of fellows found a high degree of complementarity in their work so they decided to team up to complete joint projects. Together, they have been able to tackle ambitious projects and deepen collaboration between their organizations. Learn more about the program at resilience.asu.edu/fellowships
Bradley Adame ASU Hugh Downs School of Human Communication How can we better communicate about risks associated with environmental change? https://resilience.asu.edu/adame-project Adame used Vested Interest Theory to understand how residents conceive of and react to risks associated with environmental change. These insights can inform the design and testing of messages that communicate risk and motivate behavioral change towards resilience. Diana Bowman ASU Center for Smart Cities and Regions What resilience measures do decisionmakers need to make policy decisions? https://resilience.asu.edu/bowman-project Bowman identified the most important resilience metrics for the Greater Phoenix region and created a user-friendly dashboard to allow decision-makers and residents to track these metrics.
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Access to real time resilience data will allow decision-makers to make more informed decisions while promoting transparency in the decision-making process. Doran Dalton Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community What actions can mitigate the impacts of land fractionation on the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community? https://resilience.asu.edu/dalton-project Land fractionation, the division of land among multiple heirs, presents a barrier to resilience for Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community (SRPMIC) members. Dalton created education materials to help tribal landowners, employees and leadership better understand and mitigate this challenge at an individual and policy level. Ian Dowdy Center for the Future of Arizona Watershed: Arizona — Can a strategy board game connect Arizonans to their watersheds? https://resilience.asu.edu/dowdy-project
Dowdy created a board game that aims to reconnect Arizona residents to their watersheds. Confronted with rapid population growth, each player must deploy urban planning strategies, build water infrastructure to serve their thirsty cities, and steward fragile watersheds. The game offers ideas for building awareness as a fundamental component of water resilience. Tina Skjerping Drews Salt River Project Lauren Withycombe Keeler ASU School for the Future of Innovation in Society How can Arizona organizations support the development of resilience hubs? https://resilience.asu.edu/keeler-drews-project
Resilience hubs are community spaces that provide bolster resilience before, during and after a shock through community development, emergency services and recovery assistance. Drews and Keeler held a webinar with key local stakeholders and developed a website to serve as an online resource for communities interested in developing resilience hubs.
Augie Gastelum RAIL CDC Rafael Martínez Orozco Southwest Borderlands, ASU College of Integrative Sciences and Arts How can we harness the power of community based solutions to combat displacement? https://resilience.asu.edu/gastelum-martinez-project
Gastelum and Martínez worked with a large group of stakeholders to mitigate the anticipated displacement of low income families from gentrification in Southside Mesa. By mapping historic disinvestment in the area, holding a series of community chats, and creating a StoryMap to share with a broad audience, they collaborated with local leaders to design communitybased solutions, leveraging local assets for resilience against displacement. Stephanie Lechuga-Peña ASU School of Social Work Can Photovoice help us center student and parent voices when addressing challenges in our schools? https://resilience.asu.edu/lechuga-pena-project
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Partnering with Paideia Academies, Lechuga-Peña asked students and their parents to capture photos documenting the challenges and strengths of their school community, a method known as Photovoice. Families then created photo board displays to present to the broader school community, providing them a platform to address changes they want to see in their school community to mitigate and adapt to shocks and stresses felt in the education system. Felicia Mitchell ASU Watts College of Community Solutions How can we improve adaptive capacity to water insecurity among American Indians in Arizona? https://resilience.asu.edu/mitchell-project Mitchell explored how American Indians living in Arizona experience and think about water and water insecurities by surveying their reflections on photographs depicting images of water-related issues. Her study provides insights into the nonmaterial aspects of water that may help in building long-term water resilience in Indigenous communities. Rachel Smetana City of Scottsdale, Office of the Mayor How can cities improve systems and networks for family caregivers? https://resilience.asu.edu/smetana-project More than 45 million Americans act as family caregivers, providing an average of 21 hours per week of unpaid care. Smetana held local focus groups to learn more about how the city could connect these caregivers to existing services and networks, to improve the overall resilience of systems of care. She also collaborated with other city departments and institutions to provide educational programs and create a database of local resources for family caregivers. Kenan Song School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy; The Polytechnic School How can custom mobile mini generators be used to support resilience? https://resilience.asu.edu/song-project
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Addressing energy access for those in remote areas, Song created and tested an innovative device that converts heat from everyday surfaces into electricity to power small devices. In addition to improving energy efficiency and providing a sustainable energy source, this thermoelectric generator may soon form the foundation of a self-powered health monitoring system. Steve Torres Valley of the Sun United Way Can visualizing the gap between household incomes and true costs of living motivate policy change? https://resilience.asu.edu/torres-project Torres designed an interactive dashboard to help users better understand gaps in services for vulnerable populations by comparing costs of living to household incomes and available services. He then held a focus group of community members, researchers, funders and service providers to gather user feedback. This tool is intended to help guide outreach strategies, inform service provision and allocate resources for improved community economic resilience. Brian Winsor Paideia Academies, Inc. How does exposure to nature impact school and community wellbeing? https://resilience.asu.edu/winsor-project Winsor launched a longitudinal study to determine the long-term impact of frequent childhood exposure to nature on the social cohesiveness of a school community. Community partners, including ASU, have embedded systems for nature exposure in the daily life of Paideia and the local community. Winsor’s study compares data from before and after these designs were implemented, highlighting how school infrastructure can build social resilience.
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PARTNERSHIP HIGHLIGHT
Mitigating the surge Using innovative maps and models to help decision-makers prepare for an unprecedented crisis Before the pandemic, Arizona already had one of the highest housing loss rates in the country. Maricopa County’s eviction rate was almost twice the national average. Even with a federal moratorium on evictions, the economic disruption brought about by COVID-19 threatened an already stressed system. With households falling into debt faster than assistance could reach them, and with a likely backlog of postponed evictions, how many families were at risk of housing insecurity once the moratorium ended? Leveraging ongoing monthly meetings with a wide network of housing stakeholders and researchers that began convening in 2019, our team pivoted to try to answer such urgent emerging questions. We began by creating a dashboard to map and monitor current evictions against historical rates, collaborating with Shea Lemar’s team at Geospatial Research Services. This work helped visualize the likely backlog of evictions building behind the moratorium, but it could not account for the economic effects of the pandemic to provide an accurate prediction of what to expect in unprecedented times. Next, Joffa Applegate, a KER crosscutting design scholar and assistant research professor in the School of Complex and Adaptive Systems, led the creation of a model that would take many of these unknowns into account. By allowing them to see how variables — such as how quickly incomes recovered — might affect the number of evictions,
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this agent-based model provided a more reliable prediction of how many households faced housing insecurity when the moratorium ended. “We were looking at 20% of renting households being affected by housing insecurity,” says Applegate. “That’s about 80,000 people.” To help mitigate this threat, we shared our dashboard, predictions and related policy recommendations with nonprofits like Wildfire and Chicanos Por La Causa to add to their knowledge about how to effectively allocate resources and keep people in their homes. “When thinking about where do we start, the maps really helped because we were able to see where the concentration of eviction was and which neighborhoods were affected,” says Joanna Carr, research and policy director for Arizona Housing Coalition. We also worked with the Maricopa Association of Governments to put this information and related policy recommendations directly in the hands of regional and municipal government decision-makers. “It was extremely valuable for everyone to see what it would actually mean as the moratorium ended,” says Amy St. Peter, deputy executive director for Maricopa Association of Governments. “These numbers helped us to get people to understand that things are different and [our response] can’t just stay the same.”
As understanding of this challenge evolves, so, too, do the questions. New research led by Lora Phillips, KER’s associate director for future impacts, indicates that evictions are disproportionately filed at units owned by non-local entities.
Our partners in enhancing housing resilience
Understanding more about not only those vulnerable to eviction, but also those filing evictions will help us generate upstream solutions that address root causes. Explore our evictions dashboard at resilience.asu.edu/ evictions-dashboard, and read more about our findings at keep.lib.asu.edu/collections/160080.
Joffa Applegate ASU School Complex Systems
Amy St. Peter Maricopa Association of Governments
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Research highlights KER is deeply rooted in the conviction that research can and should drive profound and enduring change. We focus on a responsive research agenda that engages partners across public, private and nonprofit sectors with the knowledge assets of the university. Here are some of our most influential research projects of the year.
Federal hearing on urban heat
GeoAI for public health resilience
Presenting solutions for heat resilience to the House Science Committee
Mapping movements to prevent and manage outbreaks
Reflecting a growing concern for the intersectional issue of urban heat, the United States House Science Subcommittee on the Environment held a hearing this July called Silent Killer: The Rising Problem of Extreme Heat in the U.S. The House Science Committee oversees the EPA and NOAA/National Weather Service.
The last two years have underlined the importance of finding reliable and ethical means of contact tracing if we hope to avoid and contain future pandemics. KER crosscutting scholar WenWen Li is tackling that challenge. Using novel algorithms to detect individuals’ potential contact with an infected person or a contaminated environment, she and her team developed a web portal to visualize these contacts for decision-makers.
Dr. Melissa Guardaro, KER’s associate director for resilience hubs, testified at the hearing about the urgency of addressing extreme heat. In her testimony, she discussed policies and programs that constrain a warming future and urged action to protect people during extreme heat periods. In addition to highlighting the vulnerability of people who live in older mobile homes and the enduring impacts of historical redlining in Phoenix, Dr. Guardaro also stressed the imperative of creating a NOAA/NWS Extreme Heat Center to coordinate national efforts and respond to the impacts of extreme heat. Learn from the testimonies at science.house.gov/hearings/silent-killer-the-risingproblem-of-extreme-heat-in-the-us
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Her computational solution has the potential to help notify individuals who may have come into contact with the virus so that they can take immediate action to protect themselves and others. Li notes, though, that there are still cultural and political barriers to overcome as well as privacy concerns to navigate in order to implement this technology.
Watch how it works at youtu.be/EXcGRo89wrA
Displaced in the Sun Belt
Innovation and Resilience
Investigating housing loss in Maricopa County
What role does innovation play in enhancing community resilience?
The United States Sunbelt has the highest combined eviction and foreclosure rates in the country, according to a report released by New America, with research support from KER. Displaced in the Sunbelt: Mapping Housing Loss Across the American South follows up on the 2020 report Displaced in America. KER’s Lora Phillips and Alexandria Drake worked with New America to zero in on Maricopa County, which is a national hot spot for housing loss. They found that though only one-third of households rent in Maricopa County, evictions accounted for 96% of housing loss between 2017 and 2019. Interviewing local housing stakeholders, they noted that the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated the risk of housing loss in already vulnerable populations and put new groups at risk, including self-employed individuals and middle class households experiencing income loss. Discover more from the report at newamerica.org/futureland-housing/reports/displaced-sun-belt/
Innovation is not just about new gadgets or technology. It is everywhere. It is in the machines that bring civilians to space as well as in the infrastructure supporting local welfare systems. It is in the equipment capturing carbon and in new policies and regulations that limit its release. What happens when we try to build solutions for resilience using an innovation framework? KER’s Carlos Aguiar Hernandez worked with the Center for the Future of Arizona’s Ian Dowdy to propose solutions to the vulnerabilities identified in Building Community Resilience in Maricopa County, a report by Piper Trust and the Institute for Sustainable Communities. They applied social, institutional and technological innovation approaches to develop transformative ideas to transition to a more resilient and innovative community. Explore these ideas at resilience.asu.edu/innovation
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Beating the Heat Developing solutions and decision-making tools to increase heat resilience of mobile home residents In Maricopa County, mobile home residents are currently six to eight times more likely to die from heat-related causes when compared to people living in any other type of housing. “People are dying, they’re falling between the cracks of assistance because we just didn’t see them,” says executive director Patricia Solís. KER research uncovered this gap in assistance in 2018, with the help of 30 local organizations working to address heat. That discovery sparked an immediate response in the City of Mesa, where the fire department increased its outreach to mobile home parks during the summer months. In the years since, we have turned our attention to developing longterm solutions to mitigate the threat of heat in mobile home parks.
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This year we published the Heat Mitigation Solutions Guide for Mobile Homes to help stakeholders choose the best set of solutions for their community. The guide contains a list of 50 solutions along with decision-making tools and case studies and was created with the help of 32 students and the continued collaboration of our heat resilience partners. Stakeholders have already started tackling this challenge — APS, for example, created a utility assistance program specifically for mobile residents, and SRP and APS partnered to lead energy efficiency workshops in mobile home parks. We hope that this guide will generate new ideas and new partnerships as we work to eliminate the threat of indoor heat deaths and enhance the heat resilience of all neighborhoods.
“When we invest in a coordinated suite of solutions … we can realize a resilience dividend in maintaining affordable, feasible, liveable housing for the 20 million Americans who choose mobile homes and manufactured housing as their place to live and thrive.” — EXCE R PT FROM H EAT M ITIGATION SOLUTIONS G U I DE FOR MOB I LE HOM ES
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EVENT HIGHLIGHT
Designing for Resilience Dividends Seeding solutions at the nexus of energy and housing Maricopa County experienced unprecedented growth over the last decade, bringing new industry and job opportunities but also driving up housing costs and limiting availability. The past decade also brought warmer temperatures, with particularly extreme summertime highs. As population growth and temperatures continue to rise, the Valley of the Sun faces an uncertain future, in which energy demands could outstrip supply, and housing pressures could create economic shocks throughout the system. Recognizing the critical importance of working across energy and housing sectors to secure a prosperous, heat-smart future for our community, KER joined with partners SRP, APS, ASU’s Decision Theater and Meteor Studios to host Designing Resilience Dividends: Energy and Housing Futures. President Michael Crow, SRP CEO Mike Hummel and APS CEO Jeff Guldner welcomed more than 80 participants to this event to learn about the factors influencing our housing energy futures. Representing utilities, the building and finance industries, local municipalities, non-profits, and academia, attendees also had the opportunity to share perspectives across sectors. Following our Share, Discover, Solve approach, the virtual event began by grounding participants in resilience concepts as they apply to the energy and housing challenges our county faces. Digging deeper, panelists — including City of Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego — shared their perspectives on the critical issues for each of their sectors. Using augmented reality and powerful data models, participants explored how they can influence energy use and cost through changes to housing design and construction, the built environment, and community and social factors. Attendees challenged each other to innovate and identify cross-sector solutions in small breakout groups.
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Together, we discussed the use of data to better understand heat mitigation, housing and energy challenges; the need to work across sectors to develop effective solutions; and the need to tailor solutions in a way that promotes equity. The convening fostered new connections and seeded collaborations. We are exploring innovative opportunities to increase the energy efficiency of residential buildings, support heat-smart housing solutions in the face of continued population growth, foster economic development despite rising temperatures, and intentionally build resilience dividends. Watch this video to learn more: bit.ly/2Z6JKpe
“Based on the rich dialogue, we revamped our extreme heat framework to be more inclusive of how we think of insurance as an intervention solution. KER demonstrated that housing and housing needs have to be integrated into the community framework. We fundamentally believe we have to think holistically about physical infrastructure and the health and wellbeing of individuals and communities jointly.” — SE R E NA SOWE R S VICE PR ESI DE NT, SWISS R E
“Last year we had 145 days with triple-digit temperatures. So we know this is a challenge that is not only worthy of our support but essential to our future ... We can lead the way in coming up with global solutions in partnership with great institutions such as ASU. It’s a huge challenge, but there’s cause for optimism.” — KATE GALLEG O MAYOR, CITY OF PHOE N IX
“To build a thriving and resilient economy of the future, we’re going to have to look ahead now. We need to innovate continuously, and we need to adapt to be able to be prepared, to be successful … and to provide additional dividends such as heat mitigation and greater energy efficiency while we minimize the impact to our customers’ energy bills.” — M I KE H U M M E L CEO, SALT R IVE R PROJ ECT
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The numbers behind the impact We measure success against our four strategic objectives. Here’s what we accomplished during Phase I, from mid-2018 to 2021:
Identify vulnerabilities, assets, and current response mechanisms proactively
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Collect, liberate, analyze, visualize, create, and communicate knowledge from vast, diverse data
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Allocate human and financial resources for systemic/systematic impact and transformation
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Win rate on grant proposals
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Ripples of impact Knowledge Exchange Circle member David Hondula was recently selected as Director of the City of Phoenix Office of Heat Response and Mitigation, the nation’s first publicly funded office to focus on heat response.
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In the news Engaging with the media plays a critical role in our knowledge exchange, allowing us to share information with a wider audience, connect with new partners and scale our impact beyond the borders of our county. Our team contributed its expertise to the following stories this year. National New America Displaced in the Sun Belt The Conversation People have had a hard time weighing pandemic risks because they haven’t gotten information they needed when they needed it Washington Post Extreme heat is killing people in Arizona’s mobile homes El calor extremo está matando a la gente en las casas móviles de Arizona
Slate What COVID-19 Dashboards Aren’t Telling Us “While facts and clarity alone will not solve misinformation or misunderstanding, improvements to COVID dashboards should decrease conjecture, senses of false security, and ambiguity.” In this op-ed, Knowledge Exchange Circle member Michael Simeone, Gracie Valdez and Shawn Walker discuss the consequences of flawed data visualization and offer suggestions to improve the clarity of COVID-19 dashboards.
Los Angeles Times Poor neighborhoods bear the brunt of extreme heat, ‘legacies of racist decision-making’
Local
“They fall between the cracks.”
ABC15 Arizona Arizona researchers look for ways to decrease heat deaths in trailers
Executive director Patricia Solis is featured in this article, in which she explains why mobile home residents are particularly vulnerable to extreme heat.
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ABC15 Arizona ASU model predicts 80,000 renters at risk for eviction when ban ends
Arizona Republic Heat killed a record number of people in Arizona last year, ‘a staggering increase’ Arizona’s Family Eviction moratorium set to expire July 31, putting Arizona renters at risk Daily Independent Surveys going out in October on Gold Canyon community plan FOX 10 Phoenix City of Phoenix offering Emergency Rental Assistance as eviction moratorium ends July 31
Arizona Republic Report: 1 in 5 households evicted in Maricopa County hot spots “Nearly all evictions that do reach the court system here in Maricopa County are decided in favor of the landlords.” Lora Phillips, associate director for broader impacts, lends her expertise to this article, speaking to the factors behind Maricopa County’s particularly high eviction rate.
Arizona Republic Low-income and Latino neighborhoods endure more extreme heat in the Southwest, study shows “There’s great disparity in terms of investment. A lot of this is historical underspending, historical redlining, and it’s something that is an avoidable public health disaster that’s just waiting to happen.” Melissa Guardaro, associate director for resilience hubs, is featured in this article on the inequitable impacts of extreme heat.
ASU News Models of human heat strain don’t account for complexities ASU News New data shows impact of COVID-19 on transportation ASU News Post-moratorium evictions surge expected to compound health, housing crises ASU News Researchers use crisis informatics to investigate people’s specific concerns with COVID-19, how they gather info
Notable mention ASU News ASU News Connecting the dots between redlining and heat resilience in Phoenix
Our partners at Fervor Creative received a Rocky Mountain Emmy for Editor Content for their film highlighting last year’s Recognition of Resilience honorees. Watch at resilience.asu.edu/recognition-of-resilience
ASU News Knowledge Exchange for Resilience gives ASU students invaluable experience
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Research publications One of our many tools of knowledge exchange is publishing what we discover together in peer-reviewed journals. By sharing these findings in formal scientific outlets, we can help build a robust repository of information to enhance community resilience.
Food, energy and water transitions
Below is a list of published articles and book chapters that address relevant topics related to community
Urban heat and healthy communities
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Alic, Dijana, Alanya Drummond, Sarbeswar Praharaj, and Jack Peacock. 2021. “Leveraging the Capabilities of Sessional Teachers in Design Education.” The International Journal of Design Education 15 (1): 131-143. https://doi. org/10.18848/2325-128X/ CGP/v15i01/131-143
Hinrichs, Margaret and Patricia Solís. 2021. “Defining and transgressing boundaries in development and environment contexts.” Chapter in McCusker, Ahmed, Ramutsindela, and Solís (Eds). The Routledge Handbook of Development and Environment. Routledge, pp. 19-29.
Leao, S.Z., van den Nouwelant, R., Shi, V., Han, H., Sarbeswar Praharaj, and Pettit, C.J., 2021.
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A rapid analytics tool to map the effect of rezoning on property values. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 86, p.101572. https://doi.org/10.1016/j. compenvurbsys.2020.101572
Equity and place Learn more about the FUSE resilience themes at: https://resilience.asu.edu/FUSE-themes
Mathews, Mason Clay. 2021. How village leaders in rural Amazonia create bonding, bridging, and linking social capital configurations to achieve development goals, and why they are so difficult to maintain over time. World Development. https://www.sciencedirect. com/science/article/abs/pii/ S0305750X21001534
Meerow, Sara, Mukunth Natarajan, David Krantz. 2021. “A review of green infrastructure performance in arid and semiarid environments.” Urban Water Journal. 18(4): 275-285. https://doi.org/10.1080/15730 62X.2021.1877741
Phillips, Lora A., Patricia Solís, Chuyuan Wang, Katsiaryna Varfalameyeva, and Janice Burnett. 2021. Engaged Convergence Research: An Exploratory Approach to Heat Resilience in Mobile Homes. The Professional Geographer 73(4):619-631. https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00330124.2021.1924 805
Sarbeswar Praharaj & Hoon Han. 2021. Human mobility impacts on the surging incidence of COVID-19
in India. Geographical Research. https://doi. org/10.1111/1745-5871.12502
Sarbeswar Praharaj. 2021. Area-Based Urban Renewal Approach for Smart Cities Development in India: Challenges of Inclusion and Sustainability. Urban Planning. Volume 6, Issue 4. https://doi. org/10.17645/up.v6i4.4484
Sarbeswar Praharaj. 2021. Re-connecting Communities with Public Spaces: A Proposal
for Rejuvenation of Sacred Kunds in the Historic City of Varanasi. Ravi S. Singh, Bharat Dahiya, Arun K. Singh, Padma C. Poudel, eds. (2022), Practising Cultural Geographies. Part of Springer Book Series: Advances in 21st Century Human Settlements. Springer Nature Singapore. https://www.springer.com/gp/ book/9789811664137
Solís, Patricia and Amal Aljaddani. 2021. Modeling Education Deserts for Veterans and Military Families in the Southern United States. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 1-24. DOI:10.1080/24694452. 2021.1947769.
In this commentary paper published in Nature, Knowledge Exchange Circle members Sara Meerow and David Hondula partner with co-authors from the University of Arizona, UCLA and the Aspen Global Change Institute to call for a focused research program that supports heat governance and outline six principles for decisionmakers and researchers. Keith, Ladd, Sara Meerow, David M. Hondula, V. Kelly Turner, and James C. Arnott. 2021. Deploy heat officers, policies and metrics. Nature 598:2931. https://www.nature. com/articles/d41586-02102677-2
Solís, Patricia, Gautam Dasarathy, Pavan Turaga, Alexandria Drake, Kevin Jatin Vora, Akarshan Sajja, Ankith Raaman, and Sarbeswar Praharaj. 2021. Understanding the Spatial Patchwork of Predictive Modeling of First Wave Pandemic Decisions by US Governors. Geographical Review 111(4):592-615. DOI: 10.1080/00167428.2021.194 7139.
Wang, Chuyuan, Patricia Solís, Lily Villa, Nayan Khare, Elizabeth Wentz, and Aaron Gettel. 2021. Spatial Modeling and Urban Analysis of Heat-related Morbidity in Maricopa County, Arizona. Journal of Urban Health 98(3):344-361. DOI:10.1007/ s11524-021-00520-7.
Wu, Haorui, Lori Peek, Mason Clay Mathews, and Nicole Mattson. 2021. Cultural Competence for Hazards and Disaster Researchers: Framework and Training Module. Natural Hazards Review. (Accepted. In press.)
Zhao, Qunshan, Ziqi Li, Dhrumil Shah, Heather Fischer, Patricia Solís and Elizabeth A. Wentz. 2021. Understanding the interaction between human activities and physical health under extreme heat environment in Phoenix, Arizona. Health & Place DOI:10.1016/j. healthplace.2021.102691.
Resilience Briefing Series In addition to peer-reviewed scientific articles, we also often produce reports and briefings with our partners in the form of short reports or white papers that capture some of the findings and recommendations that come from our community-engaged research. These papers are available to the public through ASU Library’s KEEP database at https://hdl.handle. net/2286/R.2.C.160080.
Exchange for Resilience. Available from Arizona State University Library, https://hdl. handle.net/2286/R.2.N.160734.
Aguiar-Hernandez, Carlos, & Dowdy, Ian. (2021). “The role of innovation for building community resilience.” [White Paper.] Resilience Briefings Series, Knowledge Exchange for Resilience. Available from Arizona State University Library, https://hdl. handle.net/2286/R.2.N.160933.
Applegate, J M and Sean Bergin. (2021). “COVID-19 & Evictions AgentBased Modeling Results” [White Paper.] Resilience Briefings Series: Shelter and Housing, Knowledge Exchange for Resilience. Available from Arizona State University Library, https://hdl.handle.net/2286/ R.2.N.160733.
Phillips, Lora A., Brajesh Karna, Shelley Morgan, Patricia Solís, and Elizabeth A. Wentz. (2021). “LIHEAP Disbursements to Vendors and At-Risk Populations in Arizona.” [White Paper.] Resilience Briefings Series: Shelter and Housing, Knowledge
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Council of Resilience Leaders Amplifying our ability to build resilience in Maricopa County and beyond. KER’s newly formed Council of Resilience Leaders — made up of influential individuals from across the county representing private, nonprofit and public sectors — met for the first time this fall. The Council supports building capacity to adapt to shocks and stresses in ways that provide added benefits for residents. By becoming knowledgeable ambassadors for resilience work, raising the profile of our mutual interests in community resilience, and providing recommendations on future opportunities, resources and potential partners, the council is helping us strategically broaden and deepen our impact — locally, nationally and internationally.
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David Adame President and CEO Chicanos Por La Causa
Kate Gallego Mayor City of Phoenix
Teniqua Broughton Executive Director The State of Black Arizona
Neil Giuliano President and CEO Greater Phoenix Leadership
Greg Burton Executive Editor Arizona Republic
Jeff Guldner CEO Arizona Public Service Company (APS)
Maria Dadgar Executive Director Inter Tribal Council of Arizona
Dana Kennedy State Director AARP, Arizona
David Lujan President and CEO Children’s Action Alliance
David Rousseau President Salt River Project (SRP)
Amy St. Peter Deputy Executive Director Maricopa Association of Governments (MAG)
Monica Villalobos President and CEO Arizona Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
Robin Reed President and CEO Black Chamber of Arizona
Cynthia Zwick Executive Director Wildfire
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Our team Leadership and Administration Elizabeth Wentz Director Patricia Solís Executive Director
Brajesh Karna Data Manager Elisha Charley Graduate Research Assistant
Susana Bustillos Assistant Director
Alexandria Drake Graduate Research Assistant
Marcia Nation Evaluator
Kevin Jatin Vora Graduate Research Assistant
Michael Quinn Patton Evaluator
Chelsea Dickson Project Manager, Liaison to the Decision Theater
Fernando Zacarias Business Coordinator Travis Craddock Associate Director of Development
Faculty, Staff and Students Melissa Guardaro Assistant Research Professor and Associate Director for Resilience Hubs Mason Mathews Assistant Research Professor and Associate Director for Academic Integration and Alliances Sarbeswar Praharaj Assistant Research Professor and Associate Director for Data and Visualization Lora Phillips Assistant Research Professor and Associate Director for Broader Impacts Sarah Jones Strategic Partnerships Director
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Abby Johnson Multimedia Specialist Shea Lemar Director, Geospatial Research & Solutions Abdulrahman “Al” Alsanad GIS Analyst Lillian Ruelas Events Coordinator Yash Rajkumar Vakil Web Design and Content Intern Katsiaryna Varfalameyeva Management Intern Lily Villa Graduate Research Assistant Carlos Aguiar Hernandez Data Analytics Research Aide Ritesh Reddy Anugu Data Analytics Research Aide
Crosscutting Design Scholars Margaret Hinrichs School for the Future of Innovation in Society and Decision Theater Shade Shutters Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity and Decision Theater Shauna BurnSilver School of Human Evolution and Social Change Erik Johnston School for the Future of Innovation in Society Christina Ngo Office of Applied Innovation Thaddeus Miller School for the Future of Innovation in Society and The Polytechnic School Michael Simeone ASU Library Data Science and Analytics unit Joffa Applegate Global Biosocial Complexity Initiative WenWen Li School of Geographical Sciences & Urban Planning Samuel Markolf School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
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Funders & knowledge partners Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust The ASU Knowledge Exchange for Resilience is supported by Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust. Piper Trust supports organizations that enrich health, well-being, and opportunity for the people of Maricopa County, Arizona.
Funding support also received from: ASU Institute for Social Science Research (ISSR) NASA National Science Foundation Schmidt Futures The Nature Conservancy USAID USGS
ASU Academic Unit Partners ADVANCE* ASU Foundation for A New American University* ASU Geospatial Research and Solutions* ASU Library ASU NEXUS Lab ASU Smart City Innovation Center Barrett, The Honors College* Center for Emergency Management
and Homeland Security
Rob and Melani Walton Sustainability Solutions
Center for Smart Cities and Regions Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law College of Integrative Sciences and Arts
School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
Decision Theater* Equitable Places Lab
School for the Future of Innovation in Society
Global Futures Laboratory*
School of Arts, Media and Engineering
Global Sport Institute
School of Complex Adaptive Systems
Healthy Urban Environments*
School of Computing, and Augmented Intelligence
Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts Hugh Downs School of Human Communication
School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning* School of Human Evolution and Social Change
Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering School of Social Work Knowledge Enterprise School of Sustainability Laboratory for Energy And Power Solutions (LEAPS)*
Southwest Borderlands
Mirabella
SPARC Lab*
Morrison Institute for Public Policy*
Stardust Center for Affordable Homes and the Family
Office of Applied Innovation Office of Presidential Initiatives
Studio for Creativity, Place, and Equitable Communities
OKED Broader Impacts Group
TenAcross 10X The Graduate College*
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Chicanos por la Causa
MesaCAN
University City Exchange
Children’s Action Alliance
New America
Urban Climate Research Center
City of Mesa
Paideia Academies Inc
W. P. Carey School of Business*
City of Phoenix
Phoenix Rescue Mission
Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication
City of Scottsdale
RAIL Community Development Corporation
City of Surprise Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions
City of Tempe
Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community
YouthMappers*
Corporation for Supportive Housing
Salt River Project
Community Partners
Crisis Response Network
Salvation Army
AARP Arizona
Fervor Creative
St. Vincent de Paul
Amazon Web Services
Garcia Family Foundation
State of Black Arizona
APS
Global Council for Science and the Environment
Swiss Re
Arizona Association of Manufactured Home, RV and Park Model Owners
Greater Phoenix Economic Council
Arizona Association o Mobile Home Owners
The Arizona Republic The Connective Greater Phoenix Leadership University of Arizona* Heliosun US Census Bureau
Arizona Department of Economic Security
Inter Tribal Council of Arizona
Arizona Department of Housing
Manufactured Housing Communities of Arizona
Valley of the Sun United Way
Maricopa Association of Governments
Vitalyst Health Foundation
Maricopa County Public Health Department*
Wildfire
Arizona Housing Coalition AZ Hispanic Chamber of Commerce AZCEND Black Chamber of Arizona
Utility Assistance Coalition Network
Meritage Homes
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About the Cover Artist Oliverio Balcells A multimedia artist whose practice includes painting, music, murals, films and photography, Oliverio Balcells is also a teaching artist and a scholar of the ancient Mesoamerican cultures. He has been selected for eight public art programs throughout the Valley, including a sculpture in Goodyear, a bench in Glendale and murals throughout Tempe. Balcells has presented a multimedia performance at Pueblo Grande Museum, served as an artist-in-residence for local schools and led workshops for many organizations and arts programs. His work has been featured on a cover of Ruth Gomber-Munoz’s book Labor and Legality: An Ethnography of a Mexican Immigrant Worker. Balcells received his Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design from the Univa University in Guadalajara, Mexico. He is interested in social themes like history, culture and symbolism. He currently lives and works in Tempe, Arizona, USA with his wife and two children. His native language is Spanish, and English is his second language. We commissioned Balcells to produce an image that would evoke the threat of heat faced by mobile home residents as well as the promise that data-driven collaboration holds to bolster their resilience. You can see more of his work at oliveriobalcells.com or on Instagram @olibalcells.
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