Annual Report
2020
Share. Discover. Respond. Table of Contents 3
Director’s welcome
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Research accomplishments via knowledge exchange
Mission and words from President Michael M. Crow
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Signature events
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Recognition of Resilience
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In the news
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2020 fellowship cohort
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Scholarly publications
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Partnerships for data-driven
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Leadership and core team
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Sponsors and knowledge partners
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About the artwork
community resilience
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Milestones of a growing initiative
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The numbers behind the impact
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Director’s Welcome A year of building local resilience amid a global pandemic. faculty, students, fellows, scholars, practitioners, and partners. These actions cross public, private, and non-profit sectors. The Knowledge Exchange for Resilience (KER) strives to build capacity within ASU and across Maricopa County to be one of the leading centers in scientifically-driven resilience action. In the pages of this annual report, we encourage you to learn about some of the highlights from this year’s most timely and relevant endeavors.
Dear Friends, As we reflect on 2020, it is impossible not to interpret our experience through the lens of shock that this year brought to our community and our families. We recall the moments in March when the coronavirus pandemic swept over the nation and the world. The shock thrust our economies and institutions into new ways of working, learning, and behaving. The necessary public health responses further cascaded into economic decline, housing loss, and widening needs that have since not abated for everyone equally. We reflect on renewed calls for social justice, which compelled our collective attention to systemic racism. We remember the long summer months when the desert heat was unusually high. A record-breaking summer that made an impact on both our health and wallets while we tried to stay cool. Even though the current moment is disheartening, we have heard encouraging stories of community
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resilience. The converging shocks of 2020, which clearly and tragically have transformed society, also allow us to take stock and recognize our strengths. It challenges us to consider how we might bounce back better together. We acknowledge that many organizations have gone above and beyond to connect, learn, and address critical needs. We have witnessed our community adapt through innovation like reconfiguring dairy supply chains to meet food security demands. We have seen our community advocate for equity, ensuring that resources benefit everyone, by helping minority-owned small businesses access relief funds. We have also observed how data tools can strengthen social cohesion and integrate systems like rental and utility assistance to reach more families in need, faster.
Elizabeth Wentz Director and Principal Investigator wentz@asu.edu
Likewise, our university-community research collaborations have been a source of hope and optimism. While building community resilience is a process, our collaborations have taken important steps - bringing together
Patricia SolĂs Executive Director patriciasolis@asu.edu
the capacity of a community to withstand, respond, and transform through long term stresses and acute shocks. Through the lens of community resilience, our reflection on 2020 can be a sobering experience. It also offers a vision for transformation and hope. We want to say thank you to all of our staff and partners, within ASU and beyond, for being a part of these efforts to share, discover, and respond.
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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 exchanging responses to challenges together in order to build community resilience. We work to advance social cohesion, promote economic prosperity, and enhance environmental security to create profound and enduring change that brings resilience dividends.
“My hope is that KER will bring together all the forces to help us to be prepared for all of the resilience events that we’re going to be experiencing in the decades ahead because they’re going to be many, they’re going to be powerful, and they’re going to be something that we’re going to have to learn to turn to our advantage.” — M ICHAE L M. CROW, ASU PR ESI DE NT
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Recognition of Resilience Inspiring champions illustrate key characteristics of bouncing back better.
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“In ordinary times, we need to be resilient if we’re going to thrive and grow. But these are no ordinary times. 2020 has been a year of unprecedented upheaval.” — E LIZAB ETH WE NTZ, DI R ECTOR, KNOWLE DG E EXCHANG E FOR R ESI LI E NCE
This year, community champions have adapted to multiple pressing issues, including the pandemic’s health effects, the economic shock of safety closures, and the unacceptable state of social and racial justice. And then there’s the chronic challenge: heat. A recordbreaking summer that only intensified these compound threats.
“When COVID-19 struck, our community came together—the hospitals, the health systems, the schools, the after-school care people, a whole other variety of people— came together to quickly change the way they were working. If we hadn’t done that, we would have much more serious problems than we have.” — MARY JAN E RYN D, VI RG I N IA G. PI PE R CHAR ITAB LE TR UST
Champions across sectors have shown incredible resilience and worked tirelessly to address these challenges. Among the many champions, KER and the Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust have identified three entities to recognize for their inspirational efforts to strengthen community resilience.
Adaptation: United Dairymen of Arizona and Arizona Food Bank Network Demonstrating flexible, innovative and creative approaches during a time of rapid change. Equity: RAIL CDC Addressing the uneven distribution of vulnerabilities within communities to ensure that resources and prosperity benefit everyone. Social Cohesion: Wildfire Strengthening how communities connect or respond to challenges or opportunities together. Learn more at https://resilience.asu.edu/ recognition-of-resilience K N OW L E D G E E XC H A N G E F O R R E S I L I E N C E
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Resilience Fellows 20 Fellows Go Virtual in 2020 Each year, the most dynamic leaders from across the university and community are selected to participate in a year-long fellowship to strengthen community resilience. Fellows conduct individual and collaborative research focused on FEWS resilience themes. When shelter-in-place interventions made in-person meetings no longer possible, the 2020 cohort accepted new challenges with grace and adapted their research to go virtual. Zoom meetings became the new normal, and they pivoted their projects to focus on adaptation and mitigation. Community resilience became more crucial than ever. As the year comes to a close, the fellows have completed impressive research milestones that will bolster our ability to bounce back from shocks like the pandemic — faster. Learn more about the program at https://resilience.asu.edu/fellowships
Andres Baeza-Castro, ASU Global Drylands Center Eco-health knowledge exchange for disease vector control in Maricopa County https://resilience.asu.edu/baeza-castroproject Dawn Augusta, ASU Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation Maps and guides: improving navigation of the Maricopa mental health system https://resilience.asu.edu/augusta-project
Melanie Gall, ASU Center for Emergency Management and Homeland Security Heat mitigation: beyond handing out water in Maricopa County https://resilience.asu.edu/gall-project
Erica Hodges, ASU and The Society of St. Vincent de Paul Cultivating mutually beneficial university & nonprofit partnerships https://resilience.asu.edu/hodges-project
Michelle Jordan, ASU Global Biosocial Complexity Initiative Rising next-generation leadership through youth-led community engineering https://resilience.asu.edu/jordanproject
Joseph Rossell, Community and Economic Development Department, City of Phoenix Food production in Phoenix: assessing the vulnerabilities of local growers to shocks and stress https://resilience.asu.edu/ rossell-project
Naketa Ross, ResilientMe From foster care to resilience: saving lives by changing the model https://resilience.asu.edu/ross-project
Julia Matthies, The Society of St. Vincent de Paul Elements of a shelter community model serving homeless older adults based on social determinants of health https://resilience. asu.edu/matthies-project
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Kristina Lopez, ASU School of Social Work Autism and service claim approvals in Arizona https://resilience.asu.edu/lopez-project
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Terra Rose Ganem, Brilliant Planet Understanding barriers urban residents face to growing their own food https://resilience.asu.edu/rose-ganem-project
“When we started this fellowship, I think a lot of us were thinking about these theoretical shocks and disruptions. Well, COVID-19 hit, and what was theoretical was now an actual reality, and it changed everything.” — JOSE PH ROSSE LL, COM M U N ITY FE LLOW 2020
Daoqin Tong, ASU School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning Impacts of COVID-19 on food access in Maricopa County https://resilience.asu.edu/tong-project
Marta Berbés, ASU School for the Future of Innovation in Society Resilience concepts in the time of COVID-19 https://resilience.asu.edu/berbes-project
Deborah Salon, ASU School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning Will we ever “go back” to our pre-COVID way of life? https://resilience.asu.edu/salon-project
Michael Simeone, ASU Libraries Symbolizing recovery: analyzing COVID-19 graphics and dashboards https://resilience.asu.edu/simeone-project
Janis Norton, Urban Farm Fruit tree demand as a barometer of resilience? A zipcode analysis of the impact of the pandemic on horticultural services https://resilience.asu.edu/norton-project Joshua Loughman, ASU Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering Energy futures: anticipatory methodological choice at the energy transition https://resilience.asu.edu/loughman-project Kathleen Pine, ASU College of Health Solutions How people seek information and accomplish tasks during an extended crisis https://resilience.asu.edu/pine-project
Molly Benton, Maricopa County Department of Public Health Building on local expertise and lived experience for effective community-led improvement projects https://resilience.asu. edu/benton-project Natalia Ronceria Ceballos, Valley of the Sun United Way HEIGHT: a novel households expenses and income gap tool https://resilience.asu.edu/ronceria-ceballos-project Thaddaeus Gassie, Crisis Response Network Actionable homelessness data plan https://resilience.asu.edu/gassie-project
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#FlattenT Academic Fellow Michael Simeone Symbolizing recovery: analyzing COVID-19 graphics and dashboards. As decision-makers and the public have sought information about the COVID-19 pandemic, they’ve had to wade through a flood of maps, graphs, charts, and diagrams — some more useful than others. “Done well, data visualization can help communicate risk, demonstrate the impact of collective action, and inform decisions to produce an equitable and resilient society,” says Michael Simeone, director for data science and analytics for ASU libraries. “Done thoughtlessly, they make us less resilient, feeding misinformation, confusion, or obfuscation.” Simeone analyzed images shared on Twitter with the hashtag “#flattenthecurve.” He also surveyed graphics produced by major media outlets and reviewed all 50 states’ COVID-19 dashboards to zero in on
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best practices for creating effective and useful data visualizations. He found that charts of the epidemiological curve seemed to strike the biggest chord, as the concept of “flattening the curve” grew beyond the visualization, becoming a call to action and a shorthand for a set of behaviors to mitigate the pandemic. Meanwhile, media outlets and state dashboards relied heavily on maps that made no link to behavior or policy. “These habits of visualizing the pandemic inadvertently make the profoundly large numbers associated with the pandemic more abstract and less associated with the consequences of policy or collective behavior,” Simeone notes. He and his team are sharing their findings widely, via guide documents, academic journals, a podcast, and news articles. “In the short term, we hope to better inform audiences so they can be more deliberate in what they recognize and take away from data visualizations about the pandemic,” Simeone says. In the long term, though, he hopes that this work will improve future data
visualizations, particularly those used to make sense of disasters and widespread threats. “How we visualize harm, risk, and the consequences of collective decisions is a critical part of adaptation and resilience,” Simeone says. It can help the public share a single vision and work together toward community-level resilience. “Employed deliberately and with the full knowledge of what does and does not work, data visualization is an important way to make sure that complex data can matter to decision-makers.”
Michael Simeone ASU Libraries
TheCurve “Done well, data visualization can help communicate risk, demonstrate the impact of collective action, and inform decisions to produce an equitable and resilient society. ” — M ICHAE L SI M EON E, ACADE M IC FE LLOW 2020
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Academic Fellow Erica Hodges Cultivating mutually beneficial university and nonprofit partnerships. “Complex social and economic issues in the community like poverty, homelessness, and immigration cannot be addressed by one organization, entity, or sector,” says Erica Hodges, ASU and The Society of St. Vincent de Paul program manager. Strengthening and expanding partnerships between universities and nonprofits, in particular, has vast potential to create more resilient community support systems. But how do we measure a partnership’s success in building community resilience? “It’s hard to measure partnership because it’s so dynamic and diverse,” Hodges says, who seeks to pin down novel best practices for effective and lasting collaboration.
“Even though it may only take one person — a champion — to initiate something really powerful, it does take a whole community to realize that and to make it sustainable.” — E R ICA HODG ES, ACADE M IC FE LLOW 2020
During her fellowship, Hodges analyzed data on the ASU and St. Vincent de Paul partnership to identify critical elements of successful collaboration and to create a framework for evaluating and improving university-nonprofit partnerships that seek to enhance resilience. She found volunteerism to be a consistent component and noted that staff capacity in leadership and coordination is essential for maintaining these kinds of partnerships. Additionally, lasting partnerships exhibit reciprocity in which their goals and values align. “In order to have a basis for a longstanding partnership, there has to be a really clear return on investment,” Hodges explains. “Reciprocity has to be a part of it, and it needs to be really clearly understood and stated. It can’t be assumed.” Hodges then applied her framework, facilitating meetings with the partners responsible for the Phoenix Welcome Center, a relief center for asylum seekers. “The focus was to determine if the university and nonprofit partnership framework could be used to create community resilience,” Hodges says. Working alongside the 2020 cohort — each member embedded in a community-university partnership influenced the design of her model. “I think the takeaway is that even though it may only take one person - a champion - to initiate something really powerful, it does take a whole community to realize that and to make it sustainable.” 12
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Community Fellow Joseph Rossell Food production in Phoenix: assessing the vulnerabilities of local growers to shocks and stress. Our current food system is not yet resilient enough to weather large scale disruptions, as 2020 vividly demonstrates. An inadequate food system affects not only consumers, but the producers in Maricopa County suffer too. “As the effects of the pandemic rippled across society and the economy, an already challenged local growingcommunity endured a new financial disruption,” says Joseph Rossell, program manager for the city of Phoenix community and economic development department. “Shelter-in-place orders, restaurant closures, and shuttered schools impacted segments of their customer base, resulting in lost revenue,” Rossell adds.
Joseph Rossell City of Phoenix
“The fellowship created an invaluable opportunity for me to engage the local growing-community and learn how the city can better address their needs and challenges.” — JOSE PH ROSSE LL, COM M U N ITY FE LLOW 2020
During his fellowship, Rossell interviewed 30 Phoenix farmers about their vulnerabilities and preparations for future shocks. “The fellowship created an invaluable opportunity for me to engage the local growing-community and learn how the city can better address their needs and challenges,” he says. Learning that a significant number of growers lease their land worries Rossell the most. The position leaves them extremely vulnerable to displacement. Extreme climates, record-breaking temperatures, and lack of monsoon rains are other concerns. There is cause for hope, though. Most of the farmers interviewed expressed interest — even excitement — at the prospect of partnering with the city of Phoenix to implement resilience measures that consider the full food journey: processing, distribution, outlets, and waste recycling. “Working to understand the landscape, vulnerabilities, and needs of the local food production community represent the first phase of a much larger, comprehensive effort to support and promote the entire local food system,” Rossell says. The city of Phoenix will be able to use his findings to design and adopt a new strategy to support and promote entrepreneurship, innovation, and resilience throughout he food system.
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Community Fellow Terra Rose Ganem Understanding barriers urban residents face to growing their own food. Imagine a city that can grow its own food during times of food crisis. That’s the vision that Terra Rose Ganem holds for Phoenix residents. During the 2020 pandemic, our community saw a staggering increase in food insecurity, with food bank lines stretching farther than many had seen in their lifetimes. At the same time, many families established “victory gardens” as a way to help stave off possible household shortages in the future. Ganem is the executive director of Brilliant Planet, an organization working to educate the public and build a community around growing and preparing fresh, organic food. Learning what barriers stand in the way of people becoming food growers would be a boon, allowing her and her colleagues to design more effective programs and initiatives. As a fellow, Ganem administered a survey on urban residents’ values and perceptions related to food and growing to learn more about their hurdles and frustrations. “Through understanding how people with means perceive growing in Arizona, I anticipated a gateway into understanding how we can better create a community-wide ecosystem,” she says. For Ganem, a resilient food system requires a diverse community of household growers supporting each other, encouraging new growers, and sharing their yields.
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Terra Rose Ganem Brilliant Planet
Arizona currently produces about 12% of the country’s fruits and vegetables, ranking third nationally. Meanwhile — before the COVID-19 pandemic — one in six Arizonans were experiencing food insecurity, a number expected to have risen dramatically this year. “To me those numbers are staggering,” Ganem says. “We obviously don’t have a food problem; we have a distribution problem.”
“To me those numbers are staggering. We obviously don’t have a food problem; we have a distribution problem.” Several of Ganem’s survey participants who tried to grow their own food reported feeling overwhelmed by large yields. They didn’t know how to preserve it, nor where they could go to share it with those in need. “We will be looking at how to bridge the gap between the plentiful food available in this state, including food that our community grows, and those who are in need,” Ganem says. She notes that the fellowship helped her to see community resilience and her work through a new lens: “Resilience demands an interconnected community to find solutions during times of crisis in order to adapt, stabilize, and rise together.”
Before the COVID-19 pandemic — one in six Arizonans were experiencing food insecurity, a number expected to have risen dramatically this year.
“Resilience demands an interconnected community to find solutions during times of crisis in order to adapt, stabilize, and rise together.” — TE R RA ROSE GAN E M, COM M U N ITY FE LLOW 2020
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Academic Fellow Dawn Augusta Maps and guides: improving navigation of the Maricopa mental health system. Reports of rising stress, anxiety, addiction, and depression have accompanied the events of 2020. This growing mental health crisis amplifies an alarm bell that health professionals have been ringing for some time: that our mental health system is falling short of helping many individuals maintain resilience in the face of shocks. Health professionals refer to the crux of this problem as the “revolving door.” Patients appear to improve only to re-enter the mental health system and lose progress. When a crisis hits, it can become too burdensome for some people to keep up with appointments and manage medications. During her fellowship, Dawn Augusta wanted to lay the foundation for long-term and short-term solutions by identifying where the system falls short. She started by working with local stakeholders to map the nodes and connections in Maricopa County’s publicly funded mental health system. Augusta says that learning more about how people move through this system will help professionals develop holistic interventions. The approach could result in a more connected and cohesive design, capable of withstanding aggressive shocks.
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She and her team often received conflicting information from informants while building the map. “That shows the complexity of the system,” Augusta says. “There is just confusion — confusion for the people that are delivering the service. Imagine for the people that are trying to navigate the system!”
“We need a whole workforce on this problem, and that’s why I think taking this angle is resilient. We have to change the system through relationships.” Until we can improve the system itself, we need to find better ways of helping people move through it. Augusta has
Dawn Augusta ASU Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation
a hunch that the best approach is to empower peer support specialists — people who have successfully navigated their own paths through the system and now work within it — by teaching them nurse coaching tools and skills. To test these tools’ efficacy and model them in practice, she provided weekly coaching to ten peer support specialists. “Nurse coaching is not trying to fix another person,” she explains. “It’s drawing from the strengths that the other person has to help them see a new path for themself, and it’s hopefully a path that exits the revolving door.”
2021 Resilience Fellows Welcoming a new cohort Officially ready to go, the roster of community and academic fellows below will join our efforts to strengthen community resilience in 2021. Community fellows Doran Dalton Salt River Pima–Maricopa Indian Community Ian Dowdy Center for the Future of Arizona Tina Skjerping Drews Salt River Project Augie Gastelum RAIL CDC, and Patchwork Community Inclusion Rachel Smetana Mayor’s Office, City of Scottsdale Steve Torres Valley of the Sun United Way Brian Winsor Paideia Academies
Academic fellows Bradley Adame ASU Hugh Downs School of Human Communication
Michael Bennett ASU Center for Science and the Imagination Diana Bowman ASU Center for Smart Cities and Regions Lauren Keeler ASU School for the Future of Innovation in Society Stephanie Lechuga-Peña ASU Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions Rafael Martínez Southwest Borderlands, ASU College of Integrative Sciences and Arts Felicia Mitchell ASU Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions Kenan Song ASU School for Engineering of Matter, Transport, & Energy, The Polytechnic School
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2020 Partnership Highlight Creating an actionable, data-driven plan to understand converging systems of housing and shelter in Maricopa County. 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. “KER epitomizes the socially embedded, purpose-driven, complex problem research organization Decision Theater® is designed to support with data modeling and community convening services,” says Jon Miller, director of ASU’s Decision Theater®. KER is partnered with Valley of the Sun United Way and ASU’s Decision Theater® to consolidate data and develop solutions related to the distinct but related problems of heat resilience, utility assistance, and housing insecurity in Maricopa County. In 2020, KER, Valley of the Sun United Way and Decision Theater® conducted a series of knowledge-enhancing activities by engaging dozens of local partners to develop equitable responses to housing shocks. Addressing a need for more actionable data, KER crosscutting scholars and
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fellows utilized data analytics and modeling to draw new insights from existing datasets. Joffa Applegate created an agentbased model to understand how individuals experience the complex system of evictions, utility assistance, and rental assistance. KER has also developed projections of expected housing loss for multiple employment loss scenarios. Michael Simeone used data clustering and predictive modeling to help stakeholders better understand gaps and inequities in services as well as exploring what puts people at risk for returning to homelessness. These findings and models, along with stakeholder interviews conducted by KER fellow Thaddaeus Gassie, are informing a new plan that will ease decision-making and increase cohesion among organizations working to
prevent and reduce homelessness. “If adopted, the plan may provide additional dividends of speed, accountability, and a unified language,” Gassie says. Through gaining a better understanding of how these siloed systems intersect and how risks converge for individuals, the partnership is laying the foundation for systematic impact and transformation. This approach will be needed now and in the future as shocks and stressors continue to evolve. “In partnership with the Knowledge Exchange for Resilience, we’ve leveraged data and ASU resources to address some of our community’s most pressing issues, especially those that emerged due to the global pandemic,” says Carla Vargas Jasa, president and CEO of Valley of the Sun United Way.
“In partnership with the Knowledge Exchange for Resilience, we’ve leveraged data and ASU resources to address some of our community’s most pressing issues, especially those that emerged due to the global pandemic. We look forward to continuing to collaborate with KER and bring others to the table to provide relief as COVID-19 continues to impact families and individuals, and, when the time is right to work together to rebuild our dynamic and diverse community.”
Carla Vargas Jasa Valley of the Sun United Way
— CAR LA VARGAS JASA, PR ESI DE NT AN D CEO, VALLEY OF TH E SU N U N ITE D WAY
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2020 Mil January
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The Census Matters to Arizona Symposium brings together local leaders to raise awareness on the impact of census data in research and community programs.
The webinar, Leadership and Resilience in the Time of COVID-19, provides rapid-response strategies to become a more resilient leader. The all-female panel features Valley of the Sun United Way, Arizona Town Hall, and Vitalyst Health Foundation.
May The Arizona Republic publishes a KER research-based opinion piece on the dangers of self-isolating in a mobile home during COVID-19. A critical stakeholder meeting sparks community action and another round of applied research. Photo: Deirdre Dalpiaz Bishop, chief of the geography division at the U.S. Census Bureau, addresses the audience as the special keynote speaker.
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Together with the ASU Rob and Melani Walton Sustainability Solutions Service and ASU LightWorksÂŽ, KER held a multi-sector stakeholder meeting to share results and identify solutions.
lestones August
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KER moves to a larger, upgraded office to accommodate a growing team.
The 2020 Hunch Lunch goes virtual and reaches a broad audience as a YouTube premiere on the theme: economic resilience and the future of work.
December Photo: Executive Director Patricia SolĂs and Assistant Director Susana Bustillos pose with the newly installed brand sign at the Discovery Hall office.
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Twenty academic and community fellows complete a year-long research program to address resilience challenges and build capacity in and across their organizations. The Recognition of Resilience highlights three outstanding community champions for their contributions to community resilience in adaptation, equity, and social cohesion.
New America releases a national report on housing loss. Maricopa County is a featured case-study, and KER researchers lead on-the-ground research components and hold a multi-sector stakeholder meeting to share findings.
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The numbers behind the impact A rapid-growing initiative, KER focuses on four main objectives to strategize impact. Here’s a look at the numbers:
Partnership Breakdown
Nonprofit Government Private
13% Private
60% Nonprofit
27%
Government
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Identify vulnerabilities, assets, and current response mechanisms proactively
3,433 Identified resilience connections in KER’s social analysis
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Community organizations engaged from public, private, and nonprofit entities
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ASU department and unit partnerships
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Collect, liberate, analyze, visualize, create, and communicate knowledge from vast, diverse data
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Public dashboards launched
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8,528
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Data sharing partnerships
Mobile home residents that received fire department outreach to support heat resilience
96 % 35
Growth in social outreach
Media stories in local and national outlets
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Students designing cooling solutions for Heat Resilience Challenge
Published peerPublications reviewed articles with community partner coauthors
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Mobilize a multi-sector network of collaborators capable of investing and responding
1,604 Attendees at recordbreaking webinar on heat resilience
Allocate human and financial resources for systemic/systematic impact and transformation
$2,873,360
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Fellows completed a year-long research program
Awarded for research from new sources
Hours invested in research and capacity building
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Displaced in America New America partnered with KER to analyze five years of eviction and foreclosure data - with a vision to transform housing systems across the nation. The culminating report, “Displaced in America,” shows Maricopa County was already struggling with housing loss prior to the pandemic. A failure to adapt now could result in a tsunami of housing loss as stressed systems reach their breaking point. “Housing loss is a longstanding issue in Maricopa County. Rates are high compared to other counties within Arizona and across the country. The pandemic has sparked unemployment and increased the urgency of understanding disparities in housing.” says Lora Phillips, a KER researcher participating in the study.
A data dive on housing loss across the U.S. and in Maricopa County
criticism on our assumptions,” says Jayson Matthews, vice president of community impact for Valley of the Sun United Way and 2019 KER fellow. “When you look into the eyes of somebody who’s lost their home, and they’re telling you their personal story — that is when the report’s numbers come to life,” says Joseph Garcia, director of public policy for Chicanos Por La Causa. The full report features an overview of housing across the country and two in-depth county case studies alongside Arizona. The executive summary for Maricopa County can be accessed below.
The report found that Maricopa County ranks 46th in the nation for worst housing loss rates based on data from 2014 - 2018. Other key findings include: •
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A total of 17,542 householders experienced foreclosure in Maricopa County, a foreclosure rate of 2.8%. Each year, about 47,000 householders experienced eviction in Maricopa County, an eviction rate of 6.2%. Evictions account for 90% of all housing loss and spike during the summer months.
To mobilize action based on these findings, KER and New America brought together stakeholders working across the housing sector to develop both long-term and shortterm solutions. “The unified approach — involving developers, renters, owners - allows us to get outside of our own echo chambers and hear other ideas. It invites feedback and
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Explore full report https://www.newamerica.org/ future-property-rights/reports/displaced-america/
“I was shocked to learn through the interviews about how many families double up as a solution to becoming homeless.” — ALEXAN DR IA DRAKE, KE R R ESEARCH ASSISTANT
Diversity in housing stock and neighborhoods “We need to look at changing zoning laws to not only improve diversity in housing stock but who lives in those units,” says Joan Serviss, executive director of the Arizona Housing Coalition.
Accessible communications and resources Ultimately, providing support to people before they lose their homes is one of the most powerful interventions. “The new report is a great tool to plan effective outreach and target people directly instead of taking a passive approach,” says Lauren Kuby, a council member for the City of Tempe and manager of the ASU Stardust Center for Affordable Homes and the Family.
Suggested responses to improve housing stock diversity include: • Create transitional housing opportunities for those experiencing eviction or foreclosure. • Reform permit and zoning requirements to produce more units for multi-generational families. • Promote mobile home development in subdivision settings.
Stakeholder suggestions to improve communications include: • Create materials in different languages like Spanish. • Use a door-to-door approach to check-in on households. • Explain the long-term impact of evictions or foreclosures on personal records.
Legal education and support
Livable wages and financial aid
On average, 87% of landlords have legal representation compared to 0.3% of tenants—the disparity results in 99% of cases with judgments ruling in favor of landlords.
According to the Arizona Department of Housing, a person needs to earn more than $20 an hour to afford comfortable housing in Phoenix. Seniors, teachers, firefighters, and small business owners are all at-risk of housing loss when a crisis hits.
Stakeholder suggestions to improve legal education and reduce loss include: • Develop a comprehensive list of housing loss resources to provide at lease-signing. • Facilitate pro-bono work to provide legal representation to tenants. • Create a curriculum for high school students to learn about renting and housing.
Stakeholder suggestions to improve livable wages and aid include: • Increase vouchers for seniors. • Support local businesses and incentivize job development for semi-skilled workers. • Reform relief funding processes to reach people directly.
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Research Highlights Data-driven, community-embedded, and willing to make the effort to uncover the root drivers behind threats to resilience is the KER approach to research. With close relationships among ASU faculty, students, and key community networks, we aim to develop new knowledge that can spark systems-level transformation. Below are highlights of the most compelling research projects for the year.
Extreme Temperatures Dashboard Changes in temperatures over the decades. Patio weather is officially here, but Arizona will not forget the scorching summer months of 2020. This year, Arizona broke several temperature records, and Phoenix saw its hottest summer since 1895. This dashboard dramatically visualizes the shifts in temperatures from the 1890s to the present. It features 130,000 traces of daily temperature data spanning across three cities over 130 years. Built by KER’s Sarbeswar Praharaj from data provided by the Office of the State Climatologist, the dashboard will help raise awareness of the long trajectory of increasing extreme heat. Visualize this at https://resilience.asu.edu/ temperature
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Heat Resilience Challenge Designing realistic and cost-effective solutions to cool mobile homes. An analysis led by KER uncovered that mobile home residents are among the most vulnerable to indoor heat exposure; they are eight times more likely to die from heat-related causes compared to residents of other types of housing. Poor infrastructure and lack of cooling units make staying cool almost impossible for some. Often residents are elderly or are living on a fixed income. In the midst of the pandemic, staying at home is doubly challenging when it is impossible to keep that home safely cool. In our groundbreaking research, KER has been bringing together faculty and students from the university as well as partners, data, and insights from the community to develop integrated solutions sets that include built environment design innovations, legal and policy remedies, and multi-sector stakeholder awareness. Discover solutions at https://resilience.asu.edu/ heat-challenge
COVID-19 mapping tool A guide to navigating local hospital resources. When COVID-19 cases began to rise back in March, it was essential to take stock of our most critical healthcare resources.
Exploring resilience on Twitter How do users define “resilience” in tweets during challenging times? Social media is a big part of our everyday lives. We tweet about our lunch, a new book, and experiencing shocks: natural disasters, health crises, and tragedy. In this study, Mason Mathews and Chelsea Dickson brought together the analytic and visualization talents of KER and ASU’s Decision Theater® to interpret millions of tweets in an effort to understand how people define “resilience” and “resilient.” The in-depth analysis reveals the shape of public conversations that may ultimately help bridge disparate community perspectives. See the results at resilience.asu.edu/twitter-dataresilience
Responding quickly, KER’s Carter Wang developed a user-friendly map that shows available hospital resources across the state, all in one place, from the latest available information. The sixteen unique layers include metrics like hospitals and hospital beds; confirmed COVID-19 cases by county; CDC social vulnerability index; and population by age group and many more. The data is collected from reliable sources and updated every 7-10 days. The effort rapidly created a public roadmap for discovering strengths and areas of need. Explore the map at https://resilience.asu.edu/ hospital-resources
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Economic Resilience Dashboard Interactive tool exploring Arizona’s economy. The question “When will things get back to normal?” is on everyone’s mind. Responses to the pandemic caused devastating shocks across sectors, and economic resilience is a critical piece to weathering this storm. Five main sections make up KER’s dashboard, including unemployment rate, initial unemployment insurance claims, industry employment wages, census household pulse survey, and CARES Act relief fund allocations. Users can query some of the regularly updated data by county and others by city. Interact with the tool at https://resilience.asu.edu/ economic-resilience-dashboard.
Mobility Trends Dashboard
Resilient cities are smart cities
Disruptions in movement during COVID-19.
Developing indicators of success.
In the wake of “safer-at-home” measures, many people’s activities and businesses came to a stop. Essential workers and others mobilized even more. How are stayat-home orders, social distancing measures, and activity closures influencing travel behavior? Using data from Apple and Google Maps, KER visualized movement trends and destinations across Arizona. The insights help to increase public understanding of how movement-restricting policies may or may not affect individual behavior, which impacts community resilience. The underlying data also informed a multicity comparative study and is being used to support a National Science Foundation RAPID grant to track disease spread using predictive analytics. Visualize this at https://resilience.asu.edu/mobility
Smart cities are those that use data and digital technology to enhance the quality of life and well-being of their residents, thus increasing their resilience when shocks occur. In 2019, the Greater Phoenix region launched a consortium called The Connective in an effort to become the largest smart region in the country. One of their first steps is to work with public, private, university, and community partners to define and standardize indicators that will help them track and measure progress. Sarbeswar Praharaj is part of the ASU team curating, designing, and building this set of indicators and dashboards in accordance with stakeholder preferences. The result will guide decision-makers in responding to local needs while meeting regional goals. Learn more about the Connective at https://www.greaterphxconnective.com Explore Praharaj’s visualization at https://resilience.asu.edu/smart-cities
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Finding local heat relief Cooling center location optimization for urban heat mitigation. The first significant spike in COVID-19 cases coincided with the hottest summer months of 2020, which broke temperature records. The need to mitigate and adapt to urban heat was made all the more pressing -- and complicated -- by the threats of disease spread. Existing cooling centers have typically been located where more volunteers and resources existed, not where the most vulnerable populations were concentrated. Working as part
of the AZ Heat Preparedness and Resilience Working Group of the Healthy Urban Environments (HUE) initiative, KER’s Melissa Guardaro is applying science and know-how to improve heat resilience. As a result, KER and Luminosity Lab launched a design phase for The Cooling Center Response Platform, which includes an optimization tool for identifying the best sites for new cooling center locations that equitably reach the most vulnerable to heat. Get insights on the issues at https://resilience.asu.edu/heat
Reflections on Community Resilience and Social Justice In a year filled with public outcry and attention to the dynamics of systemic racism, KER embarked on a concerted reflection about how our work with community resilience could better intersect with social justice. Our research to transform the systemic drivers of shocks and stressors centers on disruptions that frequently impact racial and ethnic minorities. As a university and communityengaged research group, we are committed to sharing and discovering insights that create knowledge with voices that reflect our racially and ethnically diverse community. KER is working through existing and new partnerships in this and coming years to honor these commitments. Learn more at resilience.asu.edu/social-justice
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Signature Events
Census Matters to Arizona Symposium The census count happens every decade, and the data has a long-term impact. KER hosted an event to shed light on the importance of completing the census. For community resilience, these data have implications on representation, funding, and research. The featured keynote was Dierdre Bishop, chief of geography for the U.S. Census Bureau. Leadership and resilience in the time of COVID-19 While resilience is always essential for those in leadership positions, it is crucial in times of crisis. KER hosted a webinar in response to COVID-19, featuring insights
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from an all-female panel on becoming a more resilient leader. These accomplished scholars and non-profit leaders represented Valley of the Sun United Way, Arizona Town Hall, and Vitalyst Health Foundation. Hunch Lunch: economic resilience and the future of work Each year, we gather community members to share their “hunches� about community resilience — the first step in exchanging knowledge and developing partnerships. The event went virtual this year, taking the form of a YouTube premiere. Featured speakers shared hunches on local responses to COVID-19, reimagining workforce and education pathways, and technology in economic development.
Heat Resilience Challenge: Sheltering in Mobile Homes stakeholder meeting The Heat Resilience Challenge’s first phase brought together stakeholders from across sectors to share existing knowledge, present research findings, and answer questions. The meeting inspired a local company to provide a special ASU voucher for mobile home residents to receive discounted air conditioning maintenance. KER hosted this event in partnership with the Rob and Melani Walton Sustainability Solutions and ASU LightWorks®. New America and KER stakeholder roundtable The release of Displaced in America, a study conducted by D.C based New America in partnership with KER, showed that Maricopa County is among the most vulnerable counties for housing loss across the nation. To go beyond the research findings, KER and New America hosted a stakeholder roundtable that brought together people working across the housing continuum. Stakeholders developed actionable insights, and notable leaders like City of Tempe Mayor Corey Woods used the data to implement new programs and strategies to respond to housing loss. Walking the Tightrope This annual workshop, co-hosted with ASU ADVANCE and led by Elizabeth Wentz and Patricia Solís, focused on fostering career advancement for women in professional positions. Recognizing that diverse organizations are more resilient,
this workshop supports women in having a seat at the table and learning to amplify their voices. AZ Housing Coalition eviction forum In anticipation of the looming end of the evictions moratorium, KER co-sponsored a forum hosted by the Arizona Housing Coalition. The two-day event featured national evictions expert Matthew Desmond and local leaders working in the housing sector. Knowledge shared at the event aims to help keep families in their homes and mitigate the negative impacts of evictions when they do happen.
“The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence, it is to act with yesterday’s logic.” — PETE R DR UCKE R
State of Our State: housing at a crossroads The supply of affordable housing in Arizona is not keeping pace with demand. The unemployment crisis and pandemic make this challenge worse. ASU’s Morrison Institute hosts an annual forum on a topic of high relevance to Arizona, focusing on housing this year. The event brought together state and local leaders to share experiences and propose affordable housing solutions, including ASU President Michael Crow as a speaker. KER was a cosponsor for the event. K N OW L E D G E E XC H A N G E F O R R E S I L I E N C E
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In the news National APA Planning Magazine The heat is on Devex The rise of collaborative mapping for the masses EcoWatch Extreme heat is killing Americans while government neglect increases the danger
Florida Phoenix Experts fear COVID-19 pandemic will lead to more summer heat deaths High Country News Extreme heat is here, and it’s deadly Light Reading WiCipedia gender equality is imperative in city planning Los Angeles Times Coronavirus could worsen death toll of summer heat waves, health officials warn
National Geographic As summer arrives, how will the most vulnerable escape deadly heat and COVID-19?
New America Displaced in America: mapping property loss across the United States
This article features Patricia Solís and David Hondula, sharing insights on the impact of extreme heat for people sheltering in mobile homes during the pandemic.
New America Displaced in America: in the news
“The United States is facing an unprecedented trifecta: a pandemic, record unemployment, and summer temperatures that are forecast to be above average in much of the country. It’s going to be challenging for local authorities.” — PATR ICIA SOLIS, EXECUTIVE DI R ECTOR
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Next City Adapting to climate change in the Valley of the Sun
New America Grad students face enough stress. We shouldn’t have to worry about housing, too This op-ed features Alexandria Drake sharing insights on housing insecurity among graduate students across the country. “I’m a graduate student, and I’m rent-burdened. That means over one-third of the pay from my university research job goes toward rent in a shared apartment, and, as a result, there isn’t much left over for other essentials—like food, utilities, and gas.” — ALEXAN DR IA DRAKE, G RADUATE R ESEARCH ASSISTANT
NIH Environmental Factor Newsletter Climate change, COVID-19 a double whammy for vulnerable populations
The Washington Post Hottest season on record: merciless Phoenix heat blasts by all-time monthly, summer milestones
Penn State News Penn State GIS Day virtual event to take place Nov. 12
U.S. Agency for International Development, Digital Strategy 2020-2024 Empowering youth to drive change in their communities
Reuters ‘Visible women’ feminist mappers bridge data gap in urban design Scroll.in Putting women on the map: eminist cartographers are filling in urban design data gaps
WRAL.com JOHN RAILEY: Wake Forest, WinstonSalem State united on residents’ property rights
Local Arizona Mirror Experts fear COVID-19 pandemic will lead to more summer heat deaths Arizona PBS Phoenix planning on making the city safer during heat waves Arizona Republic Metro Phoenix’s eviction and foreclosure rates double U.S. average, new report says Arizona Republic Self-isolating from COVID-19 in a mobile home? That could be deadly in Arizona AZ Central In Phoenix hottest neighborhoods, a ground-level search for ideas to tame extreme heat
KJZZ Study shows Arizona has high eviction, foreclosure rate This article features Lora Phillips sharing insights on the impact of newly released housing study findings for Maricopa County. “This pandemic is exacerbating kind of all of these vulnerabilities that already exist and is really going to hit, kind of our most vulnerable population, who have already been struggling with these issues.”
Cronkite News and Arizona PBS Report: Arizona had highest ‘housing loss’ rate; more evictions coming
ASU Now New ASU research examines how varying COVID-19 ‘shelter in place’ policies influenced travel
Cronkite News and Arizona PBS ‘There’s nothing to be afraid of”: Arizonans gear up for the 2020 census Eastern Arizona Courier Arizonans gear up for the 2020 census Patch.com Report: Arizona had highest ‘housing loss’ rate; more evictions coming Peoria Times Report: Arizona had highest ‘housing loss’ rate; more evictions coming Phoenix New Times How the coronavirus will make Phoenix’s heat problems worse Phoenix New Times Arizona regulators don’t know what to do about summer shutoffs
ASU News ASU Now 2020 census: defining the next decade
The Washington Post How America’s hottest city will survive climate change This article features David Hondula sharing insights on nature’s cooling systems and the heat island effect. “We talk about climate … as something mysterious and ambiguous that comes from the sky. But it is also something we are driving with the way we are paving our streets.” — DAVI D HON DU LA, KE R FE LLOW 19’
ASU Now Breaking down the data behind a record-breaking summer in Arizona ASU Now Data-driven disease modeling could improve regional response ASU Now The value of understanding hospital resources amid COVID-19
ASU Now Building community resilience across Arizona in the face of the coronavirus
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Research Publications Publishing the results of what we discover together in peer-reviewed journals helps us create a robust repository of knowledge to build community resilience. By sharing these findings in formal scientific outlets, the Knowledge Exchange for Resilience advances our strategic goals to: • Transform ASU’s capacity to deeply engage the community through data-driven resilience knowledge and collaborative research. • Catalyze community-level systems change by enhancing data exchange, knowledge, and actors around fundamental community resilience themes across public, private, non-profit, and academic sectors. • Provide intellectual leadership in community resilience for ASU and Maricopa County.
Resilience Themes Food, water and energy
Economy and workforce
Well being and health Shelter Direct responses to the COVID-19 pandemic Learn more about the FEWS resilience themes at https://resilience.asu.edu/fews-themes
Below is a list of the published articles and book chapters that address KER’s community resilience themes (FEWS). Documents are direct contributions by the faculty, students, and partners of KER. 2020 Adams, Rachel M., Candace M. Evans, Mason Clay Mathews, Amy Wolkin, and Lori Peek. 2020. Mortality From Forces of Nature Among Older Adults by Race/ Ethnicity and Gender. Journal of Applied Gerontology. DOI: 10.1177/07334648209546.
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Drummond, A, D. Alic, and Sarbeswar Praharaj. 2020. Leveraging the Capabilities of Sessional Teachers in Design Education. The International Journal of Design Education.
Guardaro, Melissa, Maggie Messerschmidt, David Hondula, Nancy Grimm, and Charles Redman. 2020. Building community heat action plans story by story: A three neighborhood case study. Cities, 107, 102886.
Hinrichs, Margaret and Erik W. Johnston. 2020. The creation of inclusive governance infrastructures through participatory agendasetting. European Journal of Futures Research. Hines, Emmanuelle, Mason Mathews and Lori Peek. 2020. Global List and Interactive Web Map of UniversityBased Hazards and Disaster Research Centers. Natural
Hazards Review. 21(2): DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)NH.15276996.0000371. Leao, S Z., van den Nouwelant R., Shi, Y., Han, H., Praharaj, S., Pettit C. 2020. A rapid analytics tool to map the effect of rezoning on property values. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems. Mody, E. H., C. Wang, J. Hoyt, and K. Ferguson. 2020.
Data-driven service delivery: Using population and coalition data to reengage opportunity youth in career and educational pathways. Journal of Technology in Human Services 38(4):384-409. Peek, Lori, Jennifer Tobin, Rachel Adams, Haorui Wu, and Mason Clay Mathews. 2020. A Framework for Convergence Research in the Hazards and Disaster Field: The Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure CONVERGE Facility. Frontiers in Built Environment, section Earthquake Engineering. July, 2020. 6-110. DOI: 10.3389/ fbuil.2020.00110. Pine, K.H., Hinrichs, M.M., Wang, J., Lewis, D., & Johnston, E. 2020. For Impactful Community Engagement: Check your Role. Communications of the ACM 63(7):26-28. DOI: 10.1145/3401720.
Praharaj, Sarbeswar, David King, Christopher Pettit, and Elizabeth Wentz. 2020. Using aggregated mobility data to measure the effect of COVID-19 policies on mobility changes in Sydney, London, Phoenix, and Pune. Transport Findings, October 20. Praharaj, Sarbeswar, and H. Vaidya. 2020. The urban dimension of COVID-19 in India: COVID Outbreak and Lessons for Future Cities. SMARTNET. Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Government of India. pp 1-9. DOI: 10.13140/ RG.2.2.31417.60004.
Praharaj, Sarbeswar. 2020. Re-connecting Communities with Public Spaces: A Proposal for Rejuvenation of Sacred kunds in the Historic city of Varanasi, India, In: Dahiya B., Singh, R. (Eds) Contemporary Cultural Geographies: Contexts, Forms and Practices. Springer, Cham.
Praharaj, Sarbeswar. 2020. Development Challenges of the Big Data Command and Control Centres for Smart Cities in India. In: Biloria N. (Eds) Data-driven Multivalence in the Built Environment (pp. 75-90). Springer, Cham. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-12180-8_4.
Rees, Amanda, Timothy Hawthorne, Dorris Scott, Eric Spears, and Patricia Solís. 2020. Toward a Community Geography Pedagogy: A Focus on Reciprocal Relationships and Reflection. Journal of Geography. Shannon, Jerry, Katherine Hankins, Taylor Shelton, Amber Bosse, Dorris Scott, Daniel Block, Heather Fischer, LaToya Eaves, JinKyu Jung, Jonnell Robinson, Patricia Solís, Hamil Pearsall, Amanda Rees, Aileen Nicolas. 2020. Community Geography: Toward a Disciplinary Framework. Progress in Human Geography. DOI:10.1177_0309132520961468.
Shutters, Shade, and K. Waters 2020. Inferring networks of interdependent labor skills
to illuminate urban economic structure. Entropy22(10):1078. DOI: 10.3390/e22101078. Solís, Patricia, Sushil Rajagopalan, Lily Villa, Maliha Binte Mohiuddin, Ebenezer Boateng, Stellamaris Wavamunno Nakacwa, and María Fernanda Peña Valencia. 2020. Digital Humanitarians for the Sustainable Development Goals: YouthMappers as a Hybrid Movement. Journal of Geography in Higher Education. DOI:10.1080/03098265.2020.1849067
Solís, Patricia, Jennings Anderson, and Sushil Rajagopalan. 2020. Open Geospatial Tools for Humanitarian Data Creation, Analysis, and Learning through the Global Lens of YouthMappers. Journal of Geographical Systems.
Solís, Patricia, Elizabeth Wentz, and David Hondula. 2020. Resilience and Vibrant Communities. In Creating Vibrant Communities: the 113th Arizona Town Hall Background Report, Ford, Otten and Nelson (Eds). Vitalyst Health Foundation: Phoenix, Arizona. pp.28-24. Available from https://bit.ly/2DissL9.
Resilience. Available from bit.ly/trustworthygeoai. Wang, Chuyuan, Ziqi Li, Mason Mathews, Sarbeswar Praharaj, Brajesh Karna, and Patricia Solís. 2020. The spatial association of social vulnerability with COVID-19 prevalence in the contiguous United States. International Journal of Environmental Health Research. DOI: 10.1080/09603123 .2020.1847258. Wang, Chuyuan, Patricia Solís, Lily Villa, Nayan Khare, Elizabeth Wentz, and Aaron Gettel. 2020. Spatial Modeling and Urban Analysis of Heat-related Morbidity in Maricopa County, Arizona. Journal of Urban Health.
Zhao, Qunshan, Chelsea Dickson, Jowan Thornton, Patricia Solís, and Elizabeth Wentz. 2020. Articulating strategies to address heat resilience using spatial optimization and temporal analysis of utility assistance data of the Salvation Army Metro Phoenix. Manuscript accepted. Applied Geography 122(2020):1-10. DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2020.102241.
Solís, Patricia, Wenwen Li, et al. 2020. Trustworthy GeoAI for Resilience: A Multi-sector Conceptual Framework and Research Agenda [White Paper]. Arizona State University Knowledge Exchange for
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Our Team Leadership and Administration Elizabeth Wentz Director and Principal Investigator
Brajesh Karna Data Manager
Patricia Solís Executive Director
Chelsea Dickson Project Manager, Liaison to the Decision Theater
Susana Bustillos Assistant Director
Katsiaryna “Kate” Varfalameyeva Management Intern
Marcia Nation Evaluator
Alexandria Drake Graduate Research Assistant
Michael Quinn Patton Evaluator
Elisha Charley Graduate Research Assistant
Faculty, Staff and Students Melissa Guardaro Assistant Research Professor Mason Mathews Assistant Research Professor Sarbeswar Praharaj Assistant Research Professor Lora Phillips Postdoctoral Research Scholar Chuyuan “Carter” Wang Assistant Research Professor Crystal Alvarez Communications Manager Abigail Johnson Communications Management Intern Yash Rajkumar Vakil Web Design and Content Intern
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Lily Villa Graduate Research Assistant Carlos Aguiar Hernandez Data Analytics Research Aide Ritesh Reddy Anugu Data Analytics Research Aide Samkit Shah Data Analytics Research Aide Gracie Valdez Data Analytics Research Aide Yash Vijay Data Analytics Research Aide
Vivian Arriaga Mapping for Resilience Undergraduate Intern and YouthMappers Research Aide Jacob Robinson Barrett Honors Undergraduate Student Researcher
Crosscutting 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
Kevin Jatin Vora Data Analytics Research Aide
Michael Simeone ASU Library Data Science and Analytics unit
Abdulrahman “Al” Asanad GIS Student Technician
Joffa Applegate Global Biosocial Complexity Initiative
Shakthi Bharathi Murugesan GIS Student Technician
WenWen Li School of Geographical Sciences & Urban Planning
Nerrissa Pinto GIS Student Technician
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: Schmidt Futures National Science Foundation The Nature Conservancy USAID NASA
ASU Academic Unit Partners
Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts Morrison Public Policy Institute* Knowledge Enterprise
School of Geographical Sciences & Urban Planning* School of Human Evolution and Social Change
Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication
School of Sustainability
Global Futures Laboratory* Global Sport Institute
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ASU Foundation for A New American University* Office of Presidential Initiatives Office of Applied Innovation School of Complex Adaptive Systems
Barrett, The Honors College*
Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering
Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions
The Graduate College * School for the Future of Innovation in Society
School of Arts, Media, and Engineering
Decision Theater*
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OKED Broader Impacts Group ASU Geospatial Research and Solutions *
Center for Smart Cities & Regions SPARC Lab* University City Exchange W. P. Carey School of Business* TenAcross 10X ASU Library Rob and Melani Walton Sustainability Solutions
ASU NEXUS Lab
Photo: KER leadership and the Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust board of trustees pose with Judith Rodin and President Michael M. Crow, the keynote speakers at the 2019 Celebration for Resilience.
Stardust Center for Affordable Homes and the Family Urban Climate Center Center for Emergency Management and Homeland Security
City of Tempe
AARP
Arizona Department of Economic Security*
Wildfire*
Greater Phoenix Economic Council
Manufactured Housing Community of Arizona
Heliosun
MesaCAN
Inter Tribal Council of Arizona
St. Vincent de Paul
Maricopa Association of Governments*
Chicanos por la Causa
ASU LightWorksÂŽ
Community Partners Crisis Response Network* APS Arizona Association of Manufactured Home, RV and Park Model Owners AZCEND Center for the Future of Arizona City of Mesa City of Phoenix City of Scottsdale
Arizona Department of Housing Maricopa County Public Health Department*
The Connective*
Phoenix Rescue Mission
New America
Salvation Army
National Council for Science and the Environment
SRP* Valley of the Sun United Way*
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About the Cover Artist Shachi Kale Born and brought up in Mumbai, India, Shachi Kale trained as a graphic designer and quickly rose to run her own successful design studio. In 2001, Kale and her husband moved to the Southwest. She now lives in sunny Arizona with their two young boys and dog, Buzz. The move inspired Shachi to express herself through art to grapple with the feelings of change, loss, and regrowth. Her art grew to center around her roles as a woman, her internal dialogue, and the desert environment she now calls home. Her medium of choice is watercolor, but she also enjoys gouache, acrylics, oils, fiber arts, printmaking, and digital art. Kale was honored to work on this unique piece highlighting three amazing local organizations’ work to support the Arizona community in becoming more resilient during these difficult times.
You can see her work at shachikale.com or on Instagram @shachidreams.
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