Today I welcome disaster researcher and co-founder of the group Disaster Researchers for Justice Samantha Montano.

Samantha Montano is an assistant professor of emergency management at Massachusetts Maritime Academy. Her first book is: DISASTEROLOGY: Dispatches from The Front Lines of The Climate Crisis comes out this August. She is also author of recent essay: Not All Disasters Are Disasters: Pandemic Categorization and Its Consequences with Amanda Savitt on SSRC Disaster Studies; and co-founder of Disaster Researchers for Justice.