ICF Podcast

In this podcast, Jen Folsom of ICF Next speaks with Caitlin Howley of the ICF child welfare and education team, Sam Redding from the Academic Development Institute, and Janet Throckmorton, principal of Fancy Farm Elementary School, to discuss the unique aspects of rural schools in the U.S. and how they’re responding to the challenges of COVID-19.

In episode 7 of Energy Renewed, Katie Janik of ICF speaks with Chris Pollack of the ICF technical advisory team, Sandy Calvert from insurance advisor Moore-McNeil, and Eric Daniels, founder and owner of Sun Cycle, to discuss how to get renewable energy projects back online after an unforeseen event. This episode is the third of three in our series; it focuses on the technical aspects of rebuilding and repairing a project that was impacted by unforeseen events.

In this episode of our Climate Risk podcast series, hosted by Brad Hurley, senior communications consultant at ICF, a leading climate expert discusses how floodplain maps alone may misrepresent accurate flood risk, and how climate change and access to flood risk information affects property values.

The conversation with Miyuki Hino, Ph.D., assistant professor at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, environmental science, covers topics such as:

• The effect flood risk information has on residential property values in the United States
• How property valuations will shift as flood hazards expand due to climate change
• Why it’s important to consider floodplain maps when purchasing a property and how to distinguish between historical flood data and actual flood risk
• How the government could play more of a role in conveying accurate flood risk to buyers

In episode 6 of Energy Renewed, host Katie Janik speaks with Chris Pollack, of the ICF technical advisory team; Sandy Calvert, from insurance advisor Moore McNeil; and Eric Daniels, founder and owner of Sun Cycle, to discuss how to get renewable energy projects back online after an unforeseen event.

This episode is the second of three in our series that focuses on insurance and how trends and pricing are impacted by unforeseen events.

In episode 5 of the Energy Renewed podcast—hosted by Katie Janik, asset management advisor at ICF—we kick off a new Unforeseen Events miniseries.

Unforeseen events require diligence and outside-of-the-box thinking to bring renewable energy projects back to a certain level of power production.

In part 1, hear from Chris Pollack of the ICF technical advisory team, Sandy Calvert from insurance advisor Moore-McNeil, and Eric Daniels, founder and owner of Suncycle, as they discuss the commercial side of the process of getting a renewable energy project back online after an unforeseen event.

Part 2 will focus on insurance pricing and trends and part 3 will focus on the technical aspects of rebuilding and repairing a project.

In episode 4 of our Energy Renewed podcast series — host Katie Janik, asset management advisor at ICF, speaks to Paul McGuire who was part of the team that created a short circuit program that eventually became Computer Aided Protection Engineering (CAPE) software.

Katie is also joined by Baldwin Yeung, VP of CMY Solutions, who discusses the impact of CAPE software as a foundation for the power industry for grid protection and reliability. The conversation covers the background of this important software and what it contributes to the reliability of the grid.

In this episode, host Caitlin Howley, director of child welfare and education at ICF, examines the issue of racial equity in Appalachian education. The conversation with Director of the Regional Comprehensive Center, Kandace Jones, and First2 Network Program Coordinator, Jade Irving, covers such topics as:

• Why racial equity in education matters so much for the future of Appalachia.
• Current trends and shifting attitudes toward social justice in Appalachia.
• The importance of student exposure and staff training in reaching racial equity.
• The achievement and opportunity gaps in learning—and what to do about them.
• The systemic nature of racial inequality in education, and the systemic solutions required to combat the issue.

NOTE: Jade Irving appears on this podcast in a personal capacity. She does not represent the views of her employer.

In this episode, hosts David Speiser, Ph.D., executive vice president at ICF, and Nicola Dawkins-Lyn, Ph.D., vice president of research science at ICF, explore how public health in the United States links up—and doesn’t—with the larger global health landscape.

The conversation with Director of Emory University’s Global Health Institute Dr. Jeff Koplan covers topics such as:

• The relationship between U.S. healthcare and the nation’s larger patterns of government.
• The ways global health issues affect the United States and highlight the world’s interconnectivity.
• The skills the U.S. public health workforce needs to operate in a global environment.
• The increasingly apparent role of climate change as an influence on public health issues.
• The importance of creative public health messaging in motivating U.S. citizens to stay healthy over time.

In this episode of our podcast, host by Dr. Caitlin Howley , director of child welfare and education at ICF, is joined by Dr. John Ross, one of ICF’s experts on instructional design and blended learning, to discuss the challenges students, parents, and educators across Appalachia are facing as they deal with COVID-19.

They cover topics such as:

• The effect limited resources have on every aspect of the educational experience.
• How different schools and school districts are addressing internet access and barriers to technology.
• What online learning reveals about student engagement prior to the pandemic.
• Positive changes in education that will likely remain long after COVID-19 is no longer a threat.

In this episode of our Climate Risk series, host Brad Hurley, senior communications consultant at ICF, is joined by Jesse Keenan, a social scientist at Tulane University and one of the editors of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission's Managing Climate Risk in the U.S. Financial System report, to discuss how the private sector is poised to do its part to manage climate risk.

• Transitional risks as society shifts to a net zero carbon strategy.
• The wide-reaching impacts of a regional event (e.g. wildfires, drought) on multiple commodity markets.
• How changing consumer preferences amplify uncertainties—and opportunities. 
• Steps regulators can take to prepare for risks related to climate change.
• Barriers to financial institutions’ ability to measure their climate risk.