EP #68 - Antiracism and Disaster Management- Felicia Henry & Monica Sanders

Today, we have discussion of antiracism, emergency management, and disaster research with two amazing scholars: Felicia Henry and Monica Sanders.

Felicia A. Henry is a Ph.D. Student in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at the University of Delaware. Her research interests include race, ethnicity, gender, criminal justice/mass incarceration, social vulnerability and resilience in disasters, and communities. A Licensed Social Worker (LMSW), Felicia received her Master of Social Work degree from the School of Social Policy and Practice at the University of Pennsylvania. Felicia is a Bill Anderson Fund Fellow. 

Monica Sanders is the Director of the Bill Anderson Fund, University of Delaware as. She also serves as an Associate Professor in Sociology and Criminal Justice. She has taught in the Emergency and Disaster Management Program at Georgetown University's School of Continuing Studies and the Washington and Lee University School of Law, where she created and taught a course on disaster law and policy. Her current work and interests include data in disasters, legal rights and how to use technology to reach vulnerable populations.

Professor Sanders also served as Senior Legal Advisor for International Response and Programs at the American Red Cross, where she focused on international disaster response and humanitarian assistance principles. Her response and oversight worked included being a Senior Committee Counsel for both the House of Representatives and Senate Committees on Homeland Security. In those roles, she focused on oversight of disaster response and recovery programs, cybersecurity, and critical infrastructure protection.