EP #313 - 07.26.2021 -The Texas Grid Failure and the Pandemic, hosted by Kim Fortun

Welcome to the 313th of the COVIDCalls, a daily discussion of the COVID-19 pandemic with a diverse collection of disaster experts. My name is Kim Fortun, standing in for COVID Calls host Scott Gabriel Knowles,  I am a cultural anthropoligist who studies disaster and environmental health vulnerability.  My co-hose is James Adams, a cultural anthropologist specializing in the study of energy transition.   Both of us are in the Department of Anthropology, University of California Irvine.  We’re coming to you live from there. 

Lori Peek is professor in the Department of Sociology and director of the Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado Boulder. She also directs the NSF-funded CONVERGE facility,  which is dedicated to advancing convergence research for the hazards and disaster field. She studies vulnerable populations in disaster and is author of Behind the Backlash: Muslim Americans after 9/11, co-editor of Displaced: Life in the Katrina Diaspora, and co-author of Children of Katrina.