Regional Chapter EERI Citizen Advocate Guidelines Released!

| June 2021

A companion document to EERI’s Citizen Advocate Toolkit specifically for EERI Regional Chapter seismic safety advocacy has been released! Check out the full guide here and the Toolkit on EERI’s Citizen Advocate page.

Graphic courtesy of EERI.

Advocating for Earthquake Safety in Alaska

| April 2021

The EERI Alaska chapter hosted an informative discussion that covered the history of seismicity and resilience planning in Alaska. Zahraa Saiyed discussed advocacy actions that technical constituents may consider when enhancing seismic safety in Alaska. Thank you to Jessica Feenstra (Golder Associates, EERI Alaska Chapter Chair) for hosting, Sterling Straight (Alaska Seismic Hazards Safety Commission), and Mike West (State Seismologist) for contributing to this important topic.

Natural Hazards Workshop 2020: Public Policy and Advocacy Training Session

| July 2020

With a stellar set of panelists, Zahraa @ Scyma facilitated a discussion on advocating for natural disaster risk reduction policy for the first ever virtual Natural Hazards Workshop.

This years workshop theme is Active Hope in an Era of Environmental Extremes. You can read more about the goals of the workshop on the Natural Hazards Center website here.

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2019 Natural Hazards Workshop

| July 2019

Presenting on behalf of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, Scyma shared concepts of citizen advocacy and learned from researchers and practitioners the needs of science-to-policy capacity building at the 44th Annual Natural Hazards Workshop.

Earthquake Engineering Research Institute Citizen Advocacy: Creating Seismic Safety Public Policy Champions

The theme for this year’s Workshop is Convergence: Coming Together to Improve Hazards and Disaster Research, Practice, and Policy. Click here to learn more about Convergence.

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