Please join Professor Juan Camilo Osorio and the Pratt Disaster Resilience Network, in partnership with the Tishman Environment and Design Center and the Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management at The New School, for our spring 2021 event series, Communities Beyond Crisis. In this four-part series, created in part to build upon the GCPE course "Planning for Disaster: Crisis, Social Movements and The City'' we will be discussing the ethical, political and technical opportunities and challenges associated with planning for disaster risk reduction and recovery.

Special emphasis will be placed on the prospect and implications of participatory action research, the contribution of grassroots women leaders in disaster situations the Movement for Black Lives against racist disaster recovery practices and the experience of immigrant and indigenous communities in the recovery process.

This session will focus on the leadership of women in disaster areas and will be updated with more information soon.

This event is open to the public. Live Spanish translation will be provided. For questions, please contact us at tedc@newschool.edu 

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Josephine Castillo is a community organizer for more than 20 years and founding leader of Solidarity of Oppressed Filipino People Inc. (SOFP), a federation of 235 community- based organizations across the Philippines. She has forged partnerships with national ministries, municipalities and private sector to build collaborative mechanisms that recognize and resource women’s priorities for resilient development. Following Typhoon Haiyan, she created a multi-stakeholder consortium in Tanauan Leyte, to address women’s recovery and construction concerns through creating revolving loan funds, rotating use of construction tools for owner-led housing repair and negotiating for permanent resettlement of displaced families.