Hannah M. Dancy

BIOGRAPHY:

Hannah Dancy is a Project Coordinator at the National Center for Disaster Preparedness (NCDP), where she supports the planning and implementation of FEMA training grant-based courses about post-disaster economic and housing recovery.

Prior to her time at NCDP, Hannah worked at Teachers College in the Digital Futures Institute, where she focused on introducing new learning technologies and processes to faculty in hybrid settings. She holds a Master of Arts in Ecology, Environmental and Conservation Biology from Columbia University, where she focused on the wildlife trade, captive animal behavior, and science communication. She is interested in the intersection of climate and environmental change with disaster preparedness, and how we can use effective science communication to prepare communities for these disasters.